Online safety & content laws in Micronesia (2026)

FSM has no enacted legislation addressing cybercrime or electronic evidence. The Council of Europe's Octopus platform records FSM as having no cybercrime law and not being a party or invitee to the Budapest Convention. A draft Cybercrime Bill has circulated since at least 2019 but has not been passed.

DLA Piper's Data Protection Laws of the World confirms FSM has no dedicated data-protection legislation. A Personal Data Protection Bill of 2025 targeting national government departments is pending in Congress but unenacted. No platform-liability or content-moderation regime exists.

The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity-supported Cybersecurity Roadmap (December 2021) set a six-year plan for FSM to build a national cybersecurity strategy, draft a Cybercrime Bill, and develop data-protection and e-commerce rules. It acknowledged FSM had no relevant cyber legislation at that time.

FSM held its inaugural National Cybersecurity Symposium in November 2024 and a second symposium in Chuuk in October 2025, both of which urgently called on FSM Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Act, Cybercrime Act, and Personal Data Protection Act. As of the conclusion of the 2025 symposium, none had been enacted.

The 2014 Telecom Act created the independent Telecommunication Regulation Authority (TRA), which licenses operators and ensures fair competition. It does not confer powers over online content, platform moderation, or user safety, and no subsequent legislation has added such powers.

A World Bank-funded Digital FSM project (approved 2020) supports broadband rollout and explicitly aims to 'strengthen the legal and regulatory enabling environment for the digital economy,' reflecting that the current environment is widely regarded as inadequate for digital governance.