Chile
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Chile presents low-to-medium risk for public-page crawling. Ley 21.459 (2022) criminalises "acceso ilícito" to computer systems but requires intent to access without authorisation; courts have not applied it to public-page scraping. Copyright is governed by Ley 17.336, which follows a closed list of exceptions — no TDM exception, no sui generis database right. Data protection is fast-moving: the current Ley 19.628 is weak, but Ley 21.719 (published December 13 2024, in force December 1 2026) creates a GDPR-style regime with a new independent regulator (Agencia de Protección de Datos Personales, APDP) empowered to investigate, sanction, and maintain a national sanctions register. Until December 1 2026 the old law applies; thereafter personal-data scraping carries materially higher risk. SMEs receive a further grace period (warnings only, no fines) until December 2027. No case law specifically addresses web scraping.
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 | closed list |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | prohibited |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Ley 19.628 (current); Ley 21.719 + APDP (in force Dec 1 2026) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.