Central African Republic
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
The Central African Republic has minimal digital law. There is no specific cybercrime statute; the Penal Code includes limited provisions on fraud with electronic data (Art. 164) and child pornography (Art. 111). A data protection law, Loi 24.001, was enacted in January 2024 but the required supervisory authority has not yet been established (the Ministry of Digital Economy, Posts and Telecommunications serves as interim regulator). As a CEMAC and OAPI member, regional frameworks (CEMAC Regulation No. 21/08 on electronic communications) and OAPI copyright law for original compilations apply. The country is experiencing ongoing armed conflict which severely limits legal enforcement capacity. No scraping case law has been identified. The overall posture is minimal — general civil-law principles and the Penal Code apply by default.
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 | broad criminal |
| 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 | Loi 24.001 sur la protection des données à caractère personnel (janvier 2024; autorité non encore établie) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.