Tonga
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Tonga enacted a Computer Crimes Act 2025 (Act No. 15 of 2025) replacing the Computer Crimes Act 2003; both criminalise unauthorised access to or modification of computer data. A Cybersecurity Act 2025 (Act No. 14 of 2025) was also enacted. No comprehensive data-protection law exists; the 2024 Cybersecurity Bill raised concerns about lack of privacy protections. Copyright Act provides narrow fair dealing; no sui generis database right; no TDM exception. fast_moving because both the Computer Crimes Act 2025 and Cybersecurity Act 2025 are recently enacted and their exact scope and interaction are not yet established.
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 | 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 | none (no comprehensive data-protection statute as of May 2026) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.