Data Protection Act 2021, personal data scraped from public sources

Data Protection Act, 2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021), ss. 2-10

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Commencement not set.

A personal data rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 5 September 2026.

What it requires

Scraping personal data of a person in Belize from a public website does not by itself place that data outside the Act's lawful-basis and purpose-limitation duties.
A narrower exception lets sensitive personal data, including biometric data, be processed without the ordinary conditions where the data subject deliberately made the information public.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Consent, Biometric

What this law does

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The Data Protection Act, 2021 defines personal data without excluding information that is otherwise publicly accessible, and applies to a data controller or processor established in Belize or offering goods or services to data subjects there, so scraping personal data from a public Belizean website would remain subject to the Act's lawful-basis, purpose-limitation, and cross-border-transfer duties once the Act is in force.

A narrower condition lets sensitive personal data, which includes biometric data, be processed where the data subject has deliberately made the information public, but this does not extend to ordinary personal data generally. As of this review the Act has been enacted but not confirmed in force, pending the commencement Order section 97 requires.

When LexLint raises it

crawls_web
trains_models
processes_biometrics

Read the law

Official text of the Data Protection Act
2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021), National Assembly of Belize, preserved by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine the National Assembly's own web host for this file currently displays an account-suspension notice rather than the document

archived copy

Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived 2024. Publisher's page: https://www.nationalassembly.gov.bz/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Act-No-45-of-2021-Data-Protection-Act.pdf

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