Seychelles
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Seychelles enacted a new Data Protection Act 2023 (Act 24 of 2023, in force 22 December 2023), replacing the unenforced DPA 2003 and establishing the Information Commission as supervisory authority. The 18-month compliance transition period expired approximately June 2025, meaning the Information Commission's enforcement powers (complaint investigation, enforcement notices, administrative fines) are now fully active. The Computer Misuse Act 1998 criminalises unauthorised access to computer programmes or data; access is unauthorised where the person is not entitled to controlled access of that kind and lacks consent from an entitled person. The Electronic Transactions Act 2001 supplements with offences for tampering and breach of confidentiality. No specific scraping statute, no TDM exception, no sui generis database right. Public-page crawling of non-personal data is tolerable; personal-data scraping requires a lawful basis under DPA 2023. fast_moving flag retained: DPA 2023 enforcement posture is still forming and no published enforcement decisions have been identified as of as_of_date.
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 | prohibited |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Data Protection Act 2023 (Act 24 of 2023, in force 22 December 2023; transition period expired June 2025; Information Commission as supervisory authority) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.