Honduras

Summary

Honduras has no comprehensive enacted data protection law. A constitutional reform (2013) recognised habeas data (Art. 182). A draft Personal Data Protection Law has been stalled in the National Congress since at least 2018, pending a third debate — DLA Piper and DataGuidance confirm this as of 2025. The primary operative instrument is the Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública (Decreto 170-2006), which protects personal data held by public entities only. The Código Penal (in force 2020, Decreto 130-2017) includes computer crime provisions via the Ley de Delitos Informáticos (Decreto 145-2019) covering illegal access to computer systems, interception, data interference, and computer fraud. The Council of Europe's Octopus database confirms Honduras enacted cybercrime legislation addressing illegal access and related offences, but no reported rulings apply these provisions to web scraping. Copyright is governed by Decreto 4-99-E (Ley del Derecho de Autor y Derechos Conexos, 2000) — closed exceptions, no TDM exception, no sui generis database right. Without a DP law, regulatory risk is thin; criminal exposure for scraping depends on the computer-crime provisions, which require unauthorised access to protected systems. Enforcement capacity is limited.