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U.S. Virgin Islands

United States law applies in the U.S. Virgin Islands The U.S. Virgin 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 U.S. Virgin Islands, described on this page below, applies here too.

2 of 5 named instruments researched to a stage, across two of the six areas of law we track: 2 in force. As of 6 September 2026.

  1. AI law none researched
  2. Privacy law 1
  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 law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (89 words)

The United States Virgin Islands has no comprehensive private-sector data-protection statute and no dedicated privacy supervisory authority. Its personal-data law is limited to a security-breach notification duty at 14 V.I.C. §§ 2208-2209 (Title 14, Chapter 110, Subchapter I, Identity Theft), which requires notice to an affected territory resident following unauthorized acquisition of unencrypted personal information.

Section 2208 binds a government agency and Section 2209 binds any person or business conducting business in the territory in the same terms; neither section reaches biometric identifiers, other sensitive-category data, or cross-border transfer.

Breach notification

Disclosure of Breach of Security (Identity Theft and Privacy Protection)

14 V.I.C. §§ 2208-22092019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code, Title 14, Chapter 110, Subchapter I, Section 2209, reproduced by Justia (archived copy)

archived copyRead 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 August 10, 2024. Publisher's page: https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-14/chapter-110/subchapter-i/2209/

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Any person or business that conducts business in the Virgin Islands and owns or licenses computerized personal information must disclose a breach of security to an affected territory resident without unreasonable delay following discovery, and Section 2208 imposes the identical duty on a Virgin Islands government agency.

Covered personal information is a resident's first name or initial and last name combined with an unencrypted Social Security number, driver's license number, or financial account, credit, or debit card number together with any required access code, and excludes information lawfully made available to the public through government records.

Where direct notice would cost more than $100,000, would reach more than 50,000 residents, or the covered entity lacks sufficient contact information, substitute notice by email, a conspicuous website posting, and notice to major territory-wide media satisfies the duty.

What it requires

Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (226 words)

The United States Virgin Islands has no scraping-specific statute, so general law governs each dimension separately.

Its computer-crime chapter (14 V.I.C. §§ 461, 462, 464, Title 14, Chapter 22) reaches unauthorized- or fraud-purpose access, alteration, and copying of computer data, and its computer-trespass section applies with or without authority where the actor's intent matches an enumerated list that includes making an unauthorized copy of data from a computer or network; ordinary, non-fraudulent, non-disruptive automated reading of a public page does not fit any of these elements, and no reported case has applied the chapter to scraping or automated data collection.

No reported case addresses terms-of-service enforceability against a scraper in the territory; the trespass section itself preserves ordinary contract law as a separate track. As in every US jurisdiction, copyright, any text-and-data-mining exception, and database rights are federal only, and the territory's own code adds nothing there.

The territory's only personal-data statute is a security-breach notification duty (14 V.I.C. §§ 2208-2209, addressed under the privacy topic) rather than a general restriction on collecting publicly available personal data.

The territory's general Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (12A V.I.C. §§ 303-331) is available in principle for unfair-competition or misappropriation claims but has not been tested against scraping specifically, and no statute or reported case assigns legal weight to a robots.txt directive or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

Computer misuse

Virgin Islands Computer Crimes Act, unauthorized access and computer trespass

14 V.I.C. §§ 461, 462, 464 (Chapter 22, Computer Crimes)2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Section 464 (Computer trespass) makes it unlawful to use or access a computer or computer network of another, with or without authority, with intent to disable or alter data or programs, cause a malfunction, effect an unauthorized funds transfer, injure property, make an unauthorized copy of computer data in any form, or forge e-mail routing information for unsolicited bulk mail; unlike a bare unauthorized-access standard, the offense turns on the actor's listed intent rather than on whether access itself was authorized.

Section 461 makes it a felony, punishable as set out in section 467 of the same chapter, to knowingly and intentionally access or cause to be accessed a computer, computer system, or computer network to devise or execute a scheme to defraud, to obtain money, property, or services by false or fraudulent pretenses, or to damage, destroy, alter, delete, or remove a program or data in connection with a scheme to defraud.

Section 462 separately makes it a felony, punishable as set out in section 467 of the same chapter, to intentionally access, alter, damage, or destroy a computer, computer system, computer network, computer software, computer program, or its data, without authorization and for a fraudulent or other illegal purpose.

Section 464(b) expressly preserves an ordinary contract or license governing access to a computer service as a separate, civil matter, so a terms-of-service dispute is not itself resolved by this section.

What it requires

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