Suriname
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Suriname has the thinnest digital-law framework of this batch. The country is Dutch-influenced (civil law, Dutch as official language) but has neither a comprehensive data-protection law nor a dedicated cybercrime statute. Computer-crime exposure derives from general provisions in the Wetboek van Strafrecht (Penal Code); specialist cybercrime investigators have noted these provisions are insufficient for modern cybercrime, and a draft cybercrime law exists but has not been enacted as of the as_of_date. A Privacy and Personal Data Protection Bill has been under draft but is not enacted. Copyright is governed by the Copyright Act 1913 (as amended through SB 2015 No. 83), which is a narrow statute with limited exceptions and no TDM carve-out; no sui generis database right. Suriname is not a party to the Budapest Convention. No anti-scraping case law exists. Overall risk for pure public-page crawling is low in practical terms, but legal uncertainty is high due to the underdeveloped regulatory environment. Confidence is low; human review strongly recommended.
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 | unsettled |
| 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 | No enacted law; draft Privacy and Personal Data Protection Bill pending |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.