Jamaica
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Jamaica is a common-law jurisdiction with moderate crawling risk. The Cybercrimes Act 2015 (Act 31 of 2015) s.3 criminalises unauthorised access to computers; public pages carry implicit authorisation so public-page scraping is not targeted per se, but scraping that circumvents technical controls or exceeds authorised access carries criminal exposure (up to 7 years on indictment). The Data Protection Act 2020 came into full operation in December 2023, with the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) regulating data controllers from June 2024; it applies to any automated processing of personal data and has no blanket publicly-available-data exemption. The Copyright Act 1993 (as amended 1999) protects original compilations/databases by originality of selection or arrangement; no TDM exception; no EU-style sui generis database right. No scraping-specific case law has been identified in Jamaica.
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 | 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 | Data Protection Act 2020 |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.