Ivory Coast
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Côte d'Ivoire presents moderate risk. Law No. 2013-451 of June 19, 2013 on the fight against cybercrime criminalises fraudulent access to or maintenance within a computer system (1–2 years + 5,000,000–10,000,000 CFA francs; aggravated if data extracted). Law No. 2013-450 of June 19, 2013 on personal data protection established ARTCI as the supervisory authority (succeeded by the Autorité de Protection as of 2019 restructuring) and applies to collection of personal data from public sources. Law No. 2023-593 of June 7, 2023 reinforced penalties under 2013-451. Copyright is governed by a framework aligned with OAPI/Bangui Agreement; no EU-style sui generis database right exists — database protection is compilation-originality only. Côte d'Ivoire is an ECOWAS member. Enforcement by the data protection authority is nascent; no web-scraping case law identified.
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 | without permission |
| 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 2013-450 sur la Protection des Données Personnelles (ARTCI / Autorité de Protection) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.