Cameroon
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Cameroon criminalises unauthorised access to computer systems and data interference under Law No. 2010/012 of 21 December 2010 on Cybersecurity and Cybercriminality (sections 60–89). Public-page crawling that does not circumvent technical access controls is not categorically prohibited, but Cameroonian courts have not addressed this question. Cameroon enacted a comprehensive personal data protection law, Law No. 2024/017 of 23 December 2024, which aligns broadly with GDPR principles and creates the Autorité de protection des données à caractère personnel (ADCP) as the supervisory authority. The ADCP is not yet operational as of mid-2026; an 18-month compliance transition runs to 23 June 2026. No EU-style sui generis database right — OAPI membership provides copyright only for original compilations. No TDM exception. No scraping case law identified. Law 2024/017 is recent and fast-moving; enforcement practice has not yet developed.
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°2024/017 du 23 décembre 2024 relative à la protection des données à caractère personnel (ADCP — Autorité de protection des données à caractère personnel; not yet operational as of mid-2026; 18-month transition to 23 June 2026) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.