Belize
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Belize has two relevant modern statutes both confirmed in force: the Cybercrime Act 2020 (Act No. 32 of 2020, Cap 106:01) and the Data Protection Act 2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021, gazetted 30 November 2021). The Cybercrime Act criminalises illegal access to computer systems and data, illegal data interference, and illegal system interference; the unauthorized-access offence requires intent and absence of authorization or exceeding authorization. Public-page crawling of openly accessible sites is not targeted. The Data Protection Act 2021 establishes modern data protection principles covering automated processing and is administered by a Data Protection Commissioner. Copyright law follows the UK-heritage fair-dealing model with no TDM exception and no sui generis database right. No scraping-specific case law exists.
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 | fair dealing narrow |
| 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 | Data Protection Act 2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021; in force 30 November 2021) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.