Haiti

Haiti has no scraping-specific statute, so general law governs each dimension separately, and much of it could not be confirmed against a primary source. No provision was located, in the copyright decree or elsewhere, addressing open-web crawling of public pages as such.

A Code Pénal is reported by press accounts as criminalizing fraudulent access to, or interference with, an automated data-processing system (arts. 587 to 593), and as adopted by decree in 2020 and separately reported as brought into force on 24 June 2025, but no official gazette text was located, a further press account describes implementation preparations still targeting a 1 January 2027 entry into force, and Haiti's older Penal Code, still the version WIPO Lex records as current, carries no computer-specific offence at all, so this Code's current status and content are not established here and no computer-misuse instrument is recorded.

No Haitian case law on the enforceability of a browsewrap or clickwrap terms-of-service against a scraper was located.

The Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur predates the concept of a text-and-data-mining exception and carries none, and its own exceptions to copyright are narrow (reproduction for a judicial or administrative proceeding, and, for neighbouring rights only, reproduction for scientific research, teaching, or short-fragment citation of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast); the Decree confers no sui generis database right, but does protect a compilation, such as an anthology, encyclopedia, or database, as a copyright work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is an original intellectual creation.

Haiti has no comprehensive data-protection statute, so no privacy-law carve-out or reach over scraped public personal data was found either way. No Haitian statute or reported case establishes a scraping-specific unfair-competition, misappropriation, or trespass doctrine, and none assigns legal weight to a robots.txt directive or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

Haiti's clearest private-sector security duty is Banque de la République d'Haïti (BRH) Circulaire 126, Sur les règles en matière de sécurité informatique, which sets the information-security rules binding every institution BRH supervises. Haiti's telecommunications regulator, the Conseil National des Télécommunications (CONATEL), publishes its regulatory texts at conatel.gouv.ht, including a base télécommunications décret signed under Jean-Claude Duvalier's government.

That décret requires telecommunications personnel and anyone who becomes aware of the existence or content of telecommunications correspondence to keep it secret (arts. 8-9), and gives the armed forces and the Secrétairerie d'État de l'Intérieur et de la Défense Nationale priority access to the national telecommunications network during war, civil unrest, or other emergencies (arts. 130-135), but it sets no network- or information-security requirement on a telecommunications operator or internet service provider as such.

CONATEL's own regulatory-texts listing carries a single dated regulatory decision, OE-CNT-DEC-20220001, and that decision sanctions radio-frequency interference with electronic communications rather than addressing information security. CONATEL's homepage carries a navigation stub for a Cyber sécurité project, commented out of the rendered page and linking to no published content, so no CONATEL cybersecurity regulation for licensed operators could be confirmed as published.

A CONATEL décret published 27 August 2025, amending the 14 February 2017 law on the electronic signature, extends CONATEL's authority to supervise electronic-certification infrastructure and, on CONATEL's own description, covers the responsibility of certification authorities, but the décret's own text could not be located, so whether it sets a specific security-posture duty on a certification authority, beyond legal recognition of electronic signatures and certificates, is not established here.

No general, sector-neutral reasonable-security or information-security-programme statute reaching every information-system operator was located.

Haiti's Code Pénal computer-misuse provisions, reported at arts. 587 to 593 and already recorded under the scraping topic as an offense committed against a system rather than an operator-facing security duty, carry an unresolved current-status question among conflicting press accounts and no separate operator-facing security requirement was found inside them.

Haiti has no comprehensive data-protection statute and no confirmed breach-notification duty on this jurisdiction's own privacy-topic record, so no privacy-topic security-of-processing article stands beside these findings.

Haiti has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, no recognized hot-news misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no located statute or case law addressing hyperlinking or framing liability specifically.

The relevant instrument is the Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur, which excludes the news of the day (les nouvelles du jour) and mere facts, ideas, or data from copyright protection outright, so a bare fact or news item is never protectable regardless of who first reported it.

The same Decree recognizes a compilation, such as an anthology, encyclopedia, or database, as a protected work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is an original intellectual creation.

No general quotation or press-review exception for reproducing headlines or article text was located; the Decree's only citation exception, for short fragments of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast used in reporting a current event, sits in its chapter on neighbouring (performers', producers', and broadcasters') rights and does not reach a written news article.

The Decree predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, so no opt-out mechanism of that kind exists either.