São Tomé and Príncipe
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
São Tomé and Príncipe has enacted three relevant statutes: Law No. 03/2016 on the Protection of Personal Data (establishing the ANPDP supervisory authority), Law No. 15/2017 of 6 October 2017 on Cybercrime (aligned with the Budapest Convention, criminalising illegal access at Article 7 and data interference), and Law No. 7/2017 on the Organisation and Functioning of the ANPDP. The ANPDP is operational and relatively active in providing authorisations, resolutions, and opinions. São Tomé and Príncipe has ratified the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime as a non-CoE state. No EU-style sui generis database right; São Tomé is not an OAPI member — copyright is governed by national law covering original compilations only. No TDM exception. No scraping case law. The country has a small legal profession and nascent enforcement capacity, but the ANPDP is operational. Primary sources in Portuguese. Confidence raised to medium: ANPDP operational status confirmed; cybercrime law number confirmed as Lei 15/2017 of 6 October 2017 across DataGuidance/Council of Europe sources; Budapest Convention ratification confirmed.
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 | security mechanism bypass |
| 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 | Lei n.º 03/2016 sobre a Protecção de Dados Pessoais (ANPDP — operational; Lei 7/2017 governs ANPDP organisation and functioning) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.