Bolivia
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Bolivia presents the thinnest legal framework of the five Andean countries surveyed. There is no comprehensive data protection statute; personal-data rights derive solely from the constitutional "acción de protección de privacidad" (habeas data, CPE art. 130). An AGETIC-sponsored Anteproyecto de Ley de Protección de Datos Personales was circulated in 2024 and remains pending enactment as of May 2026 — confirmed by AGETIC's own public presentations (June 2025 sign-off documents) and by DataGuidance/Lex Mundi, neither of which lists an enacted statute. The Código Penal arts. 363 bis (manipulación informática) and 363 ter (daño informático) added by Ley 1768/1997 address computer fraud and deliberate damage but are narrowly drawn (fraud element required for art. 363 bis; damage element for art. 363 ter) and have not been applied to scraping. Copyright is governed by Ley 1322/1992, which uses a closed list of exceptions with no TDM carve-out. No sui generis database right exists. No scraping-specific case law. Overall posture: minimal legal risk from computer-crime statutes for public-page crawling, but near-complete absence of data protection creates a gap rather than a green light — future legislation could change the picture rapidly.
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 | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| 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 | Constitutional habeas data only (CPE art. 130; no enacted statute as of 2026-05-24) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.