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Guam

United States law applies in Guam Guam is a state of the United States, whose 28 researched instruments are listed on the United States page, not here. The law of Guam, described on this page below, applies here too.

3 of 6 named instruments researched to a stage, across two of the six areas of law we track: 3 in force. As of 5 September 2026.

  1. AI law none researched
  2. Privacy law 2
  3. Scraping law 1
  4. Cybersecurity law none researched
  5. Age gating law none researched
  6. News aggregation law none researched

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Privacy law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (71 words)

Guam has no comprehensive personal-data-protection statute; its own privacy law is sectoral. A breach-notification duty has bound Guam entities since 2009, and a civil cause of action for unauthorized disclosure of intimate images has been available since 2020. Federal sectoral privacy law, including HIPAA, GLBA, COPPA, and the TAKE IT DOWN Act, applies of its own force in the territory and is covered in the national document rather than restated here.

Breach notification

Notification of Breaches of Personal Information

9 GCA §§ 48.10-48.80official Guam Code Annotated text, Compiler of Laws of Guam

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

An individual or entity that owns or licenses computerized data including personal information must disclose a breach of the security of the system to any affected Guam resident without unreasonable delay once it discovers or is notified of the breach and reasonably believes it has caused or will cause identity theft or other fraud; an entity holding such data for another owner or licensee must instead notify that owner or licensee as soon as practicable.

Personal information is a first name or initial and last name combined with a Social Security number, a driver's license or Guam identification card number, or a financial account, credit, or debit card number together with any required access code, and it excludes information lawfully obtained from publicly available sources or government records; the definition carries no biometric-data category.

Guam added this chapter on March 13, 2009 and its own text sets the chapter's effective date at one hundred twenty days after that enactment date, without stating the resulting calendar day; the Office of the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce it.

What it requires

Sensitive categories

Guam Uniform Civil Remedies for Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Images Act of 2019

7 GCA §§ 53101-53108official Guam Code Annotated text, Compiler of Laws of Guam

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A depicted individual who is identifiable and suffers harm from a person's intentional disclosure, or threatened disclosure, of a private intimate image made without the individual's consent has a civil cause of action against that person, if the person knew of, or acted with reckless disregard for, the lack of consent, the image's private character, or the individual's identifiability.

A prevailing plaintiff may recover the greater of actual and emotional-distress damages or statutory damages up to $10,000 per liable defendant, plus any monetary gain the defendant made from the disclosure, punitive damages, and attorney's fees, and may litigate under a pseudonym.

Guam enacted this civil-remedies chapter on February 12, 2020; its intimate-image definition covers a photograph, film, video recording, or similar medium and does not by its own terms address a depiction that is wholly AI-generated or synthetic rather than a genuine recording of the person.

What it requires

Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (142 words)

Guam has no computer-crime or unauthorized-access statute of its own comparable to a state analog to the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions apply of their own force in the territory and are covered in the national document rather than restated here.

Title 9 GCA Chapter 46's computer-related articles address unsolicited commercial email, phishing, and spyware rather than unauthorized access to a computer system, so none functions as a scraping-specific instrument.

The one Guam-specific vehicle available to a scraping-adjacent claim is the territory's general Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act, which declares false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce unlawful and actionable by the Attorney General or by any aggrieved person; no Guam court decision applying it, or any other Guam statute, to a scraping or bot fact pattern was located.

Unfair competition

Deceptive Trade Practices Unlawful (Guam Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act)

5 GCA § 32201official Guam Code Annotated text, Compiler of Laws of Guam

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Section 32201 declares false, misleading, or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce unlawful and actionable by the Attorney General or by any aggrieved person, with damages, rescission, or equitable relief available and the chapter to be liberally construed in favor of the consumer.

Section 32201 names no computer access, data collection, or automated conduct, so it reaches a scraper, data reseller, or AI service only where that service's conduct toward a Guam consumer is false, misleading, or deceptive.

What it requires

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