Equatorial Guinea
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Equatorial Guinea enacted Law No. 1/2016 of 22 July 2016 on the Protection of Personal Data, establishing key data-protection principles (purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality). As of mid-2026, a cybercrime-specific law was in advanced parliamentary drafting — multiple sources from 2023–2025 note parliament accepted articles on computer crimes and penalties, but enactment is not confirmed. The Penal Code and Telecommunications Law contain some provisions on computer-related offences. Equatorial Guinea is an OAPI member; original compilations receive copyright protection but no sui generis database right exists. The Malabo Convention (AU Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection) was adopted in Malabo in 2014; Equatorial Guinea's ratification status is uncertain. No scraping case law has been identified. Enforcement capacity is very thin.
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 | broad criminal |
| 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 | unsettled |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Ley n.º 1/2016 de 22 de julio de 2016 de Protección de Datos Personales (Guinea Ecuatorial) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.