Federated States of Micronesia
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
No comprehensive data-protection law and no enacted cybercrime or computer-crime statute. The FSM Code (Title 35) contains a copyright framework modelled on US fair use; compilations receive originality-based protection only and there is no sui generis database right. General common-law and civil principles apply, together with any contractual/ToS obligations. Web-crawling law is effectively unaddressed. An Inaugural Cybersecurity Symposium (November 2024) identified the need for a Cybercrime Act and a Personal Data Protection Act, but neither has been enacted. Until such legislation passes, there is no statutory prohibition on crawling public pages, no data-protection regime, and no TDM-specific rule; the only constraints are ToS/contract and general copyright.
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 | unsettled |
| Public-page carve-out | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | fair use |
| 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 | none enacted |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.