Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Congo-Brazzaville enacted Law No. 29-2019 of 10 October 2019 on the Protection of Personal Data (entered into force November 2020), which aligns closely with GDPR and mandates lawful-basis requirements for any personal-data processing including collection via automated means. Law No. 27-2020 on ICT offences criminalises unauthorised access to computer systems and data, following a Budapest Convention model. Public-page crawling that does not circumvent technical controls and does not collect personal data is not categorically prohibited, but no court has addressed this. The National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data created by Law 29-2019 has not yet been established in practice, limiting enforcement capacity. No EU-style sui generis database right; OAPI membership provides copyright over original compilations only. No scraping case law identified. The framework is now adequately sourced at medium confidence: the statutory texts are confirmed and the gap (DPA not yet operational) is well-documented.
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 | security mechanism bypass |
| 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 | Loi n°29-2019 du 10 octobre 2019 sur la protection des données à caractère personnel (Republic of Congo, in force November 2020); national data protection commission not yet operationally established |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.