Nauru
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Nauru enacted the Cybercrime Act 2015, which criminalises illegal access to computer systems, illegal interception, data interference, system interference, misuse of devices, computer-related forgery and fraud, and child exploitation material. The Act was modelled on the Budapest Convention framework. Nauru joined the Berne Convention on 11 May 2020 and WIPO Copyright Treaty on 11 August 2020; its Copyright Act 2019 (superseding the 1991 Act) provides fair-dealing exceptions and compilation-originality protection but no sui generis database right and no TDM exception. No comprehensive data-protection or privacy law has been enacted; draft legislation is reportedly under development. Web-crawling of public pages is unlikely to trigger the Cybercrime Act (public pages carry implicit authorisation), but technical circumvention or ToS violation substantially elevates risk.
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 | none enacted |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.