Yemen
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Yemen has been in active armed conflict since 2015, with multiple competing authorities controlling different parts of the country. There is no enacted cybercrime law; no comprehensive personal-data protection law; and no regulatory body with effective digital enforcement capacity. General laws — including the 1994 Penal Code, the 1990 Press and Publications Law, and the limited Law No. 40 of 2006 on Electronic Payment Systems for Financial and Banking Operations — have occasionally been applied to digital conduct, but none address web scraping. The government has announced intentions to develop cybercrime legislation, but no law had been enacted as of 2026. Internet access itself is severely disrupted across much of the country. The effective legal posture is minimal_or_unclear: not permissive, but unenforced and unenforeced. Confidence is low.
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 | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| 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 | No comprehensive data-protection law enacted |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.