Laos
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Laos has a thin but identifiable digital law framework applicable to web crawling. The Law on Electronic Data Protection No. 25/NA (12 May 2017) regulates collection, processing, storage, and cross-border transfer of electronic personal data by domestic and foreign actors; it is enforced through the Lao Penal Code No. 26/NA (17 May 2017) with penalties of 5-50 million Lao Kip (~$250-2,500). The Law on Prevention and Combating Cyber Crime No. 61/NA (July 2015) criminalises unauthorised computer access (Part II, Arts. 8-18). Enforcement authority rests with the Ministry of Technology and Communications (MTC) and LaoCERT. No TDM copyright exception and no database right. No reported prosecutions for web scraping. Both laws are confirmed via Digital Watch Observatory and DLA Piper secondary sources; article numbers for the cybercrime law's Part II (Arts. 8-18) are confirmed via Council of Europe Octopus. Practical enforcement risk for non-commercial, non-personal-data crawling of public pages is low, but the formal legal framework is restrictive.
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 | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | unsettled |
| 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 | Law on Electronic Data Protection No. 25/NA (12 May 2017) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.