Burundi
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Burundi has no comprehensive data protection law and no national data protection authority. Sectoral confidentiality obligations exist in employment, banking, telecommunications, and health law but do not constitute a general privacy regime. Law No. 1/10 of March 16, 2022 on the Prevention and Repression of Cybercriminality is the primary cybercrime instrument. The full text is published on the official ARCT (Agence de Régulation et de Contrôle des Télécommunications) website and the Burundi government law repository (amategeko.gov.bi), comprising 8 chapters and 70 articles; Chapter III (Arts. 14–53) covers offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and computer systems, including illegal access. Earlier Penal Code provisions (Arts. 467-470, Loi n° 1/05 du 22 avril 2009) also address illegal access and system interference but have been supplemented by the 2022 law. Web scraping is not specifically addressed. Public-page crawling of non-personal data is in practice unregulated; scraping of personal data has no comprehensive statutory framework. Confidence raised to medium: the 2022 cybercrime law text is confirmed via official sources; the main residual gap is the absence of a DP law.
Automated-access legality
Carried forward from the crawler-law index. Governs whether automated clients may access public websites in this jurisdiction.
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Authorization test | unsettled |
| Public-page carve-out | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | unsettled |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | None (sectoral confidentiality obligations only; no comprehensive DP law) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.