Turkmenistan
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Turkmenistan presents minimal documented cyber-law framework in English-language sources, combined with one of the world's most restrictive internet environments. The Criminal Code (1997, as amended) and the Law on Information about Private Life and its Protection (No. 519-V of 20 March 2017) provide the nominal legal basis; a Law on Cybersecurity was adopted in 2019 and a State Cybersecurity Service established. In practice, the internet is severely restricted by state control: internet shutdowns, website blocking, VPN suppression, and mass surveillance are documented. No scraping-specific law exists, but the broad state-control framework means any automated collection of Turkmenistani-hosted content carries high practical and legal risk. No English-language scraping case law found. Confidence is low; human review required.
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 | yes |
| 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 | evidentiary |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Law of Turkmenistan on Information about Private Life and its Protection (2017) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.