Duty LXD-0002
Crawls the web, in the United Arab Emirates
Federal Decree-Law on Combating Rumours and Cybercrime, hacking offencessince 2 lines
Federal Decree-Law No. 34 of 2021, Arts. 1-3 (Hacking) · Read the law's page
- Do not access, or remain on, a website, information system, computer, or information network without authorization, in violation of a licence, or illegally.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to fall inside or outside this section.
Federal Decree-Law on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights, protection exclusions and limitationssince 3 lines
Federal Decree-Law No. 38 of 2021, Arts. 3, 22, 24 · Read the law's page
- News, news reports, and current events that are merely media news are not protected by copyright and may be reproduced without a licence, unless the compilation or arrangement of that material is itself an innovation.
- No text-and-data-mining exception exists, so training on copyrighted UAE-sourced text or copying a database rests only on the Art. 22 personal-copy or quotation limitations, which do not reach software, software applications or databases.
- Quoting short paragraphs or excerpts of a published work is permitted only within reasonable limits for criticism, discussion or information, with the source and author's name credited.
Federal Decree-Law on the Protection of Personal Data, reach over scraped public personal datasince 1 line
Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021, Art. 4 (reach over scraped public personal data) · Read the law's page
- A scraper collecting the personal data of an individual in onshore UAE from a public, unauthenticated page must still establish a lawful basis under Art. 4 for any use beyond the narrow act that made the data public, and must treat a biometric identifier derived from public photographs, video, or audio as Sensitive Personal Data requiring explicit consent.