Oman
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Oman presents medium-high risk for web crawling. The Cybercrime Law (Royal Decree 12/2011) broadly criminalises unauthorised access to websites, computer systems, and networks, with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment; its application to public-page scraping is untested. The Personal Data Protection Law (Royal Decree 6/2022) entered full enforcement from 5 February 2026 after the transition period ended (extended by Ministerial Decision 6/2025). Executive Regulations were issued under Ministerial Decision 34/2024. The MTCIT (Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology) oversees compliance and has commenced active supervision and enforcement of sanctions from February 2026. There is no meaningful publicly-available-data exemption, and cross-border data transfers are restricted. Oman's copyright law protects databases under a compilation-originality standard; no EU-style sui generis database right exists, and there is no TDM exception. No scraping-specific case law is publicly available.
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 | broad criminal |
| Public-page carve-out | no |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| 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 | Oman PDPL (Royal Decree 6/2022), Executive Regulations Ministerial Decision 34/2024; fully enforceable from 5 February 2026; MTCIT oversight |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.