Guinea-Bissau
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Guinea-Bissau (Lusophone civil-law, ECOWAS member) has one of the thinnest digital legal frameworks in West Africa. The Penal Code of 1993 contains only general provisions on fraud and forgery with no computer-specific offences. No dedicated cybercrime law has been enacted. No data-protection law exists. No data-protection authority exists. The AU Malabo Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection entered into force in June 2023 following ratification by 15 AU member states; Guinea-Bissau's ratification status is unconfirmed by independent sources — the country is listed among those that participated in the ECOWAS cyberportal. The ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 on Personal Data Protection (2010) is binding on Guinea-Bissau as a member state and represents the only operative data-protection framework. No TDM copyright exception. No sui generis database right. Overall — the legal vacuum makes posture genuinely unclear; confidence is low and human review is warranted.
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 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 | No enacted national DP law; ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 (2010) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.