The law we track, jurisdiction by jurisdiction

Nine sections of software law, researched provision by provision. Beside each jurisdiction: how many we hold.

Software law, section by sectioneach square is two provisions

  • 2,274 laws
  • 8,871 obligations
  • 259 jurisdictions
The sections of software law LexLint holds, drawn one mark per two provisions. Each section links to its own page.3,705 provisions of software law in 9 sections, each section a block of small squares with one square per two provisions. AI, 507; Privacy, 1,348; Scraping, 547; Cybersecurity, 356; Communications, 263; Content moderation, 145; Product and AI liability, 50; Age gating, 241; Reuse, 248. Every block is drawn at the same scale and to the same width, so how deep one runs against another is how large that section of the collection is. Law written for artificial intelligence: practices banned outright, duties to tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or AI-generated content, disclosure of training data, risk controls for high-risk uses, and sector rules such as those on AI in hiring. In practice, it applies when your product builds, fine-tunes or deploys a model, runs a chatbot, or generates text, images or audio. AI507 Law on collecting and using information about identifiable people: the legal basis to process it, stricter rules for sensitive and biometric data, people's rights to see, correct and delete it, limits on sending it abroad, and the duty to report a breach. In practice, it applies to almost any product with user accounts, analytics or customer records. Privacy1,348 Law on collecting data by automated means from sites and systems you do not own: computer-access offenses, a site's terms of use, copyright and database rights in the copies a crawler makes, with their text and data mining exceptions, and what a robots.txt file means in law. In practice, it applies when your code crawls or scrapes the web, monitors prices, or gathers training data; showing what you collected to your own users is Reuse law. Scraping547 Law that sets security duties for software, connected products and the companies behind them: secure design before a product goes on sale, handling reported vulnerabilities, deadlines to report an incident or an exploited flaw, and a baseline of reasonable security for the data you hold. In practice, it applies when you ship software or a connected device, or run a service in a regulated sector. Cybersecurity356 Law on contacting people and listening in on them: consent and opt-out for marketing email and texts, rules on autodialed and prerecorded calls, consent to record or intercept a conversation, and consent before storing or reading data on a person's device. In practice, it applies when your product sends marketing messages, places calls, records audio, or sets cookies and trackers. Communications263 Law on hosting what your users post: when a service that carries, stores or shows other people's content is liable for it, what it must do once notified of unlawful content, the statements of reasons, complaint handling and transparency reports that come with moderating, and regimes aimed at terrorist content, child sexual abuse material and intimate images. In practice, it applies when your product lets users post comments, reviews, listings, uploads or messages that other people see. Content moderation145 Law on who pays when a product, software or an AI system causes harm: no-fault liability for defective products, software included in the European Union from December 2026, rules written for harm caused by AI, the presumptions and disclosure orders that help a claimant prove a defect, and defenses earned by meeting a security standard. In practice, it applies when you sell or supply software or a connected product, or deploy AI that could injure someone or damage their property or data. Product and AI liability50 Law that makes online services check or estimate a user's age, or design for the children who may use them: age verification for adult content, limits on minors' social media accounts, age checks at the app store, and age-appropriate design codes. In practice, a design code can apply to a general-purpose app simply because children are likely to use it. Age gating241 Law on copyright in other publishers' content when you show it again: quotation, fair use and news reporting exceptions that set how much of an article, headline or image you may reproduce, press publishers' rights online, linking and framing rules, text and data mining opt-outs, and codes that make platforms bargain with news publishers. In practice, it applies when your product shows other sites' headlines, excerpts or thumbnails; copying pages to crawl or train on them is Scraping law. Reuse248

200 countries · each cited to primary text · 42,131 facts against 32 attributes · taking effect from 1913 to 2030

Everything trackedprovisions on file

How to read this list

Every jurisdiction below is tracked. Research runs a jurisdiction at a time, so the number beside each one moves as its law is read. A name with no link is a jurisdiction we track and have not researched to a stage yet; a number after a country counts subdivisions not listed here, and a link jumps to the ones researched separately, below. The law is moving quickly in 193 of the 259, so most entries here are expected to change. See the same jurisdictions on a map.

The band above counts three things. Laws are read from the citations, so two acts codified in one chapter of a code may count as one; that count errs toward fewer, never more. Obligations are the requirement lines the provisions below carry, 7,721 of them binding, counted from the register of . Jurisdictions are the ones the list names. No document count: LexLint holds no text and links the official one.

Europe

Europe (non EU)18 countries

EU acts the EEA Joint Committee has incorporated into the EEA Agreement apply in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, EEA members though not EU member states.

Americas

Subnational · Americas

Canada

United States

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Other

Cities

Law below the state level, where research has reached it. Each city has a page of its own, and the local rung collects what they hold.

Planned laws

Seven laws announced by governments, with no legal text published yet. LexLint watches them and does not check code against them. Watch mode: planned laws

Frameworks

The same law, read control by control against the governance frameworks a compliance program runs on. Governance frameworks, read against the law

Methodology

What counts as law here, and what sits around it: guidance, frameworks and policy, sorted by who can hold you to them. What the law library holds