Latvia
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Latvia follows the standard EU pattern. The Criminal Law (Krimināllikums) Sections 241-244 criminalise unauthorised activities involving automated data-processing systems; the key threshold for most offences requires "substantial damage" (material harm exceeding EUR 5,000, or EUR 2,500 where legally-protected interests are also harmed). Crawling publicly accessible pages without bypassing technical barriers and causing no material harm is unlikely to trigger Sections 241-244. The Copyright Law (Autortiesību likums, amended April 2023) fully transposed DSM Directive 2019/790 including the dual-track TDM exceptions; Latvia was referred to the CJEU for late transposition but completed it with the April 2023 amendments. The full EU sui generis database right applies. GDPR is enforced by the Data State Inspectorate (DVI/DSI). EU AI Act applies from August 2025.
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 | security mechanism bypass |
| Public-page carve-out | yes |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | tdm dual track |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | with optout |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | robots txt |
| robots.txt legal weight | evidentiary |
| AI training-specific law | binding |
| Privacy regime | GDPR |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.