Crawls the web, in Brunei Darussalam

Emergency (Copyright) Order 1999, Brunei Darussalam (Cap. 56), as amended by the Copyright (Amendment) Order 2013; WIPO Lex entry No. 481

• Obtain a licence or conduct a case-by-case legal analysis before using Brunei-hosted copyrighted content for AI model training, since no statutory text-and-data-mining exception is available.

Computer Misuse Act (Cap. 194, Revised Edition 2007), s. 3 (Unauthorised Access to Computer Material) · Read the law's page

• Do not cause a computer to perform a function for the purpose of securing access to a program or data without authority, meaning without the entitlement to control that access and without the consent of a person who holds that entitlement.
• Whether reading a publicly accessible, unauthenticated page fits this section's authorisation test has not been tested in a reported Brunei decision.

Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 196, Revised Edition 2008), s. 10 (Liability of Network Service Providers) · Read the law's page

• Applies to a network service provider that merely provides access to third-party material in electronic records, meaning it supplies the technical means to reach the material (including automatic and temporary storage for that purpose); a third party is someone over whom you have no effective control.
• Where you merely provide access, you are shielded from civil or criminal liability under any rule of law for that material, including liability founded on making, publishing, disseminating or distributing it or on an infringement of rights subsisting in it.
• The shield leaves in place any liability founded on contract, on a licensing or regulatory regime, or on a court or statutory order to remove, block or deny access to material.
• Do not assume the shield covers reproducing, framing or linking a publisher's headlines and snippets: no reported Brunei decision has applied it to a news aggregator, and no Brunei statute or case says whether a hyperlink is itself a communication to the public.

Guide on Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam, First Edition (Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry, April 2025)

Guide on Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam, Second Edition (Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry, May 2026)