Electronic Commerce Law, Trade Secrets Chapter
Electronic Commerce Law (2003), Arts. 64-65 (trade secrets) and Art. 75 (penalty)
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In force since 24 October 2003.
An unfair competition rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not illegally acquire, or disclose to a third party, a trade or economic secret in an electronic environment.
- Information, software, methods, plans, financial information or a customer list that has economic value, is inaccessible to the public, and has been reasonably protected qualifies as a protected electronic trade secret.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Illegally acquiring or disclosing an electronic trade secret is corrective imprisonment of six months to two and a half years or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials (Art. 75).
Penalty structure
Fine only; Article 75 also allows corrective imprisonment of six months to two and a half years instead of the fine.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- IRR
- Fixed cap
- 50,000,000
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 64 makes the illegal acquisition of a trade or economic secret, or its disclosure to a third party in an electronic environment, an offence, stated as protecting legitimate and fair competition in electronic transactions.
Article 65 defines an electronic trade secret broadly to include information, formulas, software and programs, methods, unpublished writings, business and transaction methods, strategies, plans, financial information and customer lists that have economic value, are inaccessible to the public, and for which reasonable protective efforts have been made. Article 75 sentences a violator to corrective imprisonment of six months to two and a half years or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials.
No robots.txt-specific or AI-training-specific rule is stated; a scraper's bulk acquisition of a business's non-public electronic data could fall within Article 64 if the data meets Article 65's economic-value and inaccessibility tests.
When LexLint raises it
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