Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a Cybercrime Act 2016 (Act 20 of 2016) criminalising illegal access, illegal remaining, illegal interception, illegal data interference, illegal acquisition of data, system interference, and violation of privacy. A Data Protection Act 2021 was enacted and a commencement order (SI No. 4 of 2023) was issued, with one source indicating in-force status as of 1 January 2025; however, a February 2025 regional assessment states no commencement order has been issued. This conflict could not be resolved from publicly available official sources. A pre-digital Privacy Act 2003 remains operative regardless. Copyright law follows the UK-heritage fair-dealing model with no TDM exception and no sui generis database right. Public-page crawling is not expressly targeted; the illegal-access offence requires absence of authorization. No scraping-specific case law exists.
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 | Data Protection Act 2021 (commencement disputed: SI No. 4 of 2023 cited as commencement order by some sources, but February 2025 regional assessment states not yet in force; human review of SVG Official Gazette required); Privacy Act 2003 (operative) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.