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Northern Mariana Islands

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

1 of 3 named instruments researched to a stage, across one of the six areas of law we track: 1 in force. As of 5 September 2026.

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

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Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Privacy law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (126 words)

The Northern Mariana Islands has no comprehensive personal-data protection statute, no dedicated biometric-privacy law, no data-subject-rights statute, and no breach-notification law; Title 6 (Crimes and Criminal Procedure) and Title 4 (Economic Resources) were both read for one and neither carries any such provision. Federal privacy statutes, covered in the national document, apply to the Commonwealth of their own force.

The Commonwealth's general Consumer Protection Act, 4 CMC §§ 5101-5123, prohibits unfair and deceptive trade practices and is the sole territorial mechanism reaching a business's misrepresentation about its own data-handling practices, the same role the Federal Trade Commission Act's Section 5 plays at the federal level in the absence of a comprehensive statute; it is enforced by the Attorney General's Consumer Counsel and by a private plaintiff.

Enforcement supervision

CNMI Consumer Protection Act, general applicability

4 CMC §§ 5101-5123Official Commonwealth Code text, CNMI Law Revision Commission

In force since 2 February 1990. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

The Consumer Protection Act prohibits unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce, including passing off goods or services as another's, causing a likelihood of confusion as to affiliation or sponsorship, and representing that goods or services have characteristics they do not have.

It carries no personal-data-specific provision, but its general prohibition on deceptive representations is the Commonwealth's only current mechanism against a business that misrepresents its own data collection, use, or sharing practices, the role the Federal Trade Commission Act's Section 5 plays nationally absent a comprehensive federal statute. A consumer counsel designated within the Office of the Attorney General enforces the Act, and an aggrieved consumer may also sue directly.

What it requires

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