Trinidad and Tobago
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Trinidad and Tobago is a common-law jurisdiction with moderate crawling risk. The Computer Misuse Act 2000 (Chap. 11:17) criminalises unauthorised access to computers; public pages carry implicit authorisation so public-page scraping is not targeted per se, but circumventing technical controls or accessing beyond credentials carries criminal exposure (fines up to TT$15,000 and 2 years imprisonment for first offence, TT$30,000 / 4 years on second). The Data Protection Act 2011 (Chap. 22:04) is only partially proclaimed; Part I and ss.7-18, 22-23, 25(1), 26, 28 have been in force since 2012, with further sections proclaimed in August 2021. Full proclamation was under active government consideration as of 2023 but had not been confirmed as of the as_of_date. Partially-in-force provisions include data protection principles; enforcement capacity is limited. The Copyright Act 1997 (Chap. 82:80) protects original compilations by originality of selection or arrangement; no TDM exception; no sui generis database right. No scraping-specific case law has been identified.
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 | technical gate |
| 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 | Data Protection Act 2011 (partially proclaimed) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.