Crawls the web, in Greece
Penal Code Article 370C (370Γ), Violation of Computer Data and Program Secretssince 1 line
Poinikos Kodikas, art. 370C (370Γ), para. 1, as ratified by Law 4619/2019 (FEK A' 95/11.06.2019); formerly art. 370B (370Β) · Read the law's page
- Do not copy, record, use, or disclose to a third party computer data or programs that constitute a state, scientific, professional, or business secret, where the lawful holder treats them as secret from a justified interest, without right.
Penal Code Article 370D (370Δ), Access to an Information System in Breach of a Prohibition or Security Measuresince 2 lines
Poinikos Kodikas, art. 370D (370Δ), para. 2, as ratified by Law 4619/2019 (FEK A' 95/11.06.2019); formerly art. 370C, para. 2, as replaced by Law 4411/2016, art. 2 para. 6 (FEK A' 142/3.8.2016) · Read the law's page
- Do not access all or part of an information system, or data transmitted over a telecommunications system, by violating a prohibition or a security measure the lawful holder has put in place.
- Crawling a public, unauthenticated page that carries neither a stated prohibition nor a technical access control has not itself been held to violate this article.
Penal Code Articles 292B (292Β) and 292C (292Γ), Hindering the Operation of Information Systems and Related Devicessince 2 lines
Poinikos Kodikas, arts. 292B and 292C, hindering information systems (Law 4619/2019, FEK A' 95/11.06.2019) · Read the law's page
- Do not, without right, seriously hinder or interrupt the operation of an information system by entering, transmitting, deleting, destroying or altering digital data or by blocking access to it.
- Do not produce, sell, obtain for use, import, possess or distribute, without right and in order to commit that offense, devices, computer programs, passwords or access codes designed or adapted for it.
Penal Code Article 370B (370Β), Illegal Access to an Information System or to Datasince 1 line
Poinikos Kodikas, art. 370B, illegal access to an information system or to data (Law 4619/2019, FEK A' 95/11.06.2019) · Read the law's page
- Do not gain access, without right and in breach of a protection measure, to all or part of an information system or to electronic data.
Law 4624/2019, Greek GDPR Implementation Law (Nomos 4624/2019, N. 4624/2019)since 2 lines
Law 4624/2019, FEK A' 137/29-08-2019 · Read the law's page
- Establish a GDPR Article 6 lawful basis before processing personal data of a person in Greece, including data collected by crawling.
- Where an employee's consent is used by way of exception as the legal basis for processing the employee's personal data in Greece, take into account the employee's dependence under the contract of employment and the circumstances in which consent was given, and give the consent in writing or electronically, clearly distinguishable from the contract of employment (Law 4624/2019, Article 27(2)).
Law 4996/2022 — Transposition of DSM Copyright Directive (Text-and-Data-Mining Opt-Out)since 1 line
Law 4996/2022, FEK A' 215/22-11-2022 (Greece); transposing Directive (EU) 2019/790, Art. 4
- Obtain prior authorization before reproducing a work for text-and-data mining or AI training if the rightsholder has opted out using machine-readable means, such as robots.txt, metadata, or website terms and conditions.
Law 2121/1993 Articles 21A-21B, Text and Data Mining Exceptionsince 4 lines
Law 2121/1993, arts. 21A-21B, as inserted by Law 4996/2022, arts. 8-9 (FEK A' 218/24-11-2022) · Read the law's page
- You may reproduce and extract from lawfully accessible works and other material for text and data mining without authorisation, but only where the rightholder has not expressly reserved that use in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means for content made publicly available online (Art. 21B).
- Before mining, check for such a reservation, and do not mine material whose rightholder has reserved it.
- Keep copies made for mining only as long as the mining purpose requires.
- If you are a research organisation or cultural-heritage institution, you may reproduce a work you lawfully access for text and data mining for scientific research without any rightholder opt-out applying; a contrary contractual term is void (Art. 21A).