Samoa
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Samoa's Crimes Act 2013 (Part 9) introduced computer-related offences including unauthorised access; public pages carry implicit authorisation so the Act is unlikely to apply to routine crawling. The Privacy Act 2013, enforced by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, is a genuine data-protection framework with Information Privacy Principles — the only enacted privacy statute in this group besides Vanuatu's 2024 Act. Data Protection Guidelines 2020 supplement the Act. Copyright Act provides narrow fair dealing; no sui generis database right; no TDM exception.
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 | Privacy Act 2013 (Information Privacy Principles) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.