South Sudan
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
South Sudan has no comprehensive data protection law as of May 2026; a dedicated bill was expected to be introduced in 2026 according to a May 2025 ministerial statement. The Cybercrimes and Computer Misuse Provisional Order 2021 (enacted by presidential order when parliament was not in session) is the primary cybercrime instrument, criminalising unauthorised access to computer systems, unlawful data interference, and unlawful data acquisition. The Cybercrime and Computer Misuse Bill 2025 was passed by the Transitional National Legislative Assembly but awaited final assent as of the research date; it builds on the 2021 Order. No specific scraping statute, no TDM exception, no sui generis database right. Confidence low: active conflict jurisdiction, limited rule-of-law, no DP authority, multiple legislative instruments in flux.
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 | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| 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 (no comprehensive DP law; data protection bill expected 2026) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.