Haiti
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Haiti has the thinnest legal framework of the five Caribbean jurisdictions examined. Until 2025 it had no dedicated cybercrime statute, no comprehensive data protection law, and relied on a 1957 Penal Code supplemented by a 2005 copyright decree. A new Penal Code was adopted by Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council on 24 June 2025 and introduces cybercrime provisions (Articles 587-593 covering intrusion, destruction, and interception of computer systems) and personal/sensitive data protection articles (Arts. 437-442 and 981-984). The practical enforceability of the new code during Haiti's ongoing governance crisis is uncertain. The 2005 Copyright Decree (replacing the 1968 decree) protects original compilations as derivative works but creates no sui generis database right. No data protection authority or specific privacy law is in force as of the as_of_date. Web scraping is effectively unregulated in practice; statutory risk will increase once the new Penal Code is operationalised.
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 | unsettled |
| 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 | none |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.