Guatemala
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Guatemala has no comprehensive data protection law and no dedicated data protection authority. Constitutional habeas data (Art. 31) gives limited self-access rights. The Código Penal addresses computer crimes at Arts. 274A-274G (added by legislative reforms to Decreto 17-73): Art. 274F penalises use or obtaining of data from computer records, databases or electronic files without authorisation (6 mo - 2 yr; fine 2,000-10,000 Quetzales); Art. 274E penalises use of computer records to hide or alter information (1-5 yr). WIPO Lex confirms the text of Arts. 274A-G. Copyright is governed by Decreto 33-98 (Ley de Derecho de Autor y Derechos Conexos, 1998) — closed exceptions, no TDM exception, no sui generis database right. A cybersecurity bill (Iniciativa 6347) was under congressional discussion as of early 2025 but remains unenacted as of May 2026. Without a DP law, scraping of public government data is the lowest-risk scenario in Central America; but personal-data scraping relies solely on constitutional protections and the thin computer-crime provisions.
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 | none (constitutional habeas data only, Art. 31) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.