Gabon
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Gabon presents low-to-moderate risk for public web crawling. The cybercrime framework has been fully updated by Law No. 027/2023 of 11 July 2023 on cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime (superseding Ordonnance 15/PR/2018), which criminalises fraudulent access to automated data-processing systems, following the Budapest Convention model. Public pages are not categorically prohibited but circumventing technical measures creates criminal exposure. Data protection was updated by Act No. 025/2023 of 9 July 2023, which substantially amended Law No. 001/2011 and created a new supervisory authority (APDPVP — Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel et de la Vie Privée) replacing the CNPDCP. The 2023 data protection act requires a lawful basis for any personal-data processing including collection via automated means; public availability is not an exemption; breach notification to the APDPVP is required without delay. No EU-style sui generis database right — OAPI membership (Bangui Agreement) provides copyright protection only for original compilations. No scraping case law identified. Framework is fast-moving given two major 2023 laws.
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 | Act No. 025/2023 of 9 July 2023 (amending Law No. 001/2011 on personal data protection); supervised by the APDPVP (Autorité de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel et de la Vie Privée) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.