Norway has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

Norway has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

It is reported that Norway imposes an identity requirement for SIM registration. Anyone wanting to purchase a SIM card has to provide their national ID card or a passport in case of foreigners to activate a new prepaid SIM card.

The "Regulations relating to the Export of Defence-Related Products, Dual-Use Items, Technology, and Services" harmonise Norway's export controls with those of the European Union by subscribing to the European Dual-Use Export Control Annex. The Annex identifies a range of dual-use items that face either authorisation requirements or outright bans for exportation outside of the EU.

The Act on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act) implements the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union in Norway. In addition to companies established in the EU, the Regulation applies extraterritorially to companies offering goods or services to data subjects in the EU and companies that monitor the behaviour of EU citizens (Art. 3). Norway thus has a fully established framework for the protection of personal data.

The Act on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act) implements the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union in Norway. The GDPR requires that organisations conducting "regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale" or whose activities include the processing of sensitive personal data on a large scale must appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO).

The Act on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act) implements the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union in Norway. Under the GDPR, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) are mandatory for data processing activities that are likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

The Act on certain aspects of electronic commerce and other information society services (e-commerce law) implements Directive 2000/31/EC (E-Commerce Directive), establishing a conditional safe harbour for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Norway. The limitations on liability in the Directive apply to certain clearly delimited activities carried out by internet intermediaries rather than to categories of service providers or types of information. These are caching, conducting and hosting (Sections 16–18), while Section 19 releases ISPs from monitoring obligations.
In addition, ISPs are responsible for illegal content (including copyright infringement) if they obtain knowledge or awareness that such content is present and do not expeditiously remove or restrict access to the content. As a result, many ISPs have proactively introduced user agreements to allow them to remove any controversial content – including content that is not necessarily illegal – in order to protect themselves from liability. The Ministry of Culture is working on the implementation of Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

The Act on certain aspects of electronic commerce and other information society services (e-commerce law) implements Directive 2000/31/EC (E-Commerce Directive), establishing a conditional safe harbour for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Norway. The limitations on liability in the Directive apply to certain clearly delimited activities carried out by internet intermediaries rather than to categories of service providers or types of information. These are caching, conducting and hosting (Sections 16–18), while Section 19 releases ISPs from monitoring obligations.
In addition, ISPs are responsible for illegal content (including copyright infringement) if they obtain knowledge or awareness that such content is present and do not expeditiously remove or restrict access to the content. As a result, many ISPs have proactively introduced user agreements to allow them to remove any controversial content – including content that is not necessarily illegal – in order to protect themselves from liability. Finally, Norway is obliged to implement Directive 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. However, it has not yet done so as of May 2022.

Norway has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Norway has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

The Trade Secrets Act (2020) provides a framework for effective protection of trade secrets.

It is reported that passive sharing of telecom infrastructure is mandated and practised in both the mobile and fixed sectors. Moreover, Directive 2014/61/EU (Art. 3.2) has been incorporated into the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement, meaning it is technically required to be implemented in Norway.

The Norwegian Government controls 53.97% of shares in Telenor directly, as well as an additional 4.72% via the Government Pension Fund of Norway. Nonetheless, Norway has established a market regulator in the Norwegian Communications Authority, which has gradually sought to reduce the country's dependence on Telenor's networks.

It is reported that Norway does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, accounting separation is required in certain cases: in some markets susceptible to ex-ante regulation, the SMP operator (Telenor) is obliged to report accounting separation.