Liberia
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Liberia's digital legal framework is thin and in rapid flux. The Cybercrime Act 2025 passed the House of Representatives (November 2025) and received Senate concurrence in January 2026; as of the research date it was forwarded to President Boakai for signature but no confirmation of presidential assent or Gazette promulgation has been found. Until signed, Liberia has no enacted cybercrime statute specifically criminalising unauthorised computer access — general criminal-law fraud provisions and the ICT Policy 2009 remain the only relevant instruments. A Data Protection Bill underwent legislative consideration in early 2026 following a validation process in late 2024; it has not been enacted. The ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 (2010) on personal data protection is binding on Liberia as a member state but is not domestically operationalised. No TDM copyright exception exists. No sui generis database right. Confidence remains low; the legal position on scraping is genuinely unclear and rapidly changing; the Cybercrime Act's promulgation status is unconfirmed.
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 (draft pending); ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 (2010) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.