Personal Information Of Minors To Be Blocked Online

[Jai Dee]

Info of minors to blocked online

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Development and Human Security Paiboon Wattanasiritham (ไพบูลย์ วัฒนศิริธรรม) stated that his ministry is at the moment awaiting cooperation from various websites and internet service providers (ISP) in the country to block personal information of people under the age of 18. The Ministry has initiated its policy with 100 highly frequented websites to agree to withhold personal information for minors.

A committee for child protection will be responsible in deciding on regulations and process and also meeting with website operators and ISP’s which the committee expects will be well received.

Mr. Paiboon also commented on the upcoming Loy Krathong festival which in years past his ministry has asked that parents and guardians insure the safety of children. This year he has tasked the Ministry of Education in helping to create awareness in children themselves to stay safe and away from harm.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 22 November 2007

[Jai Dee]

Websites told to protect children's information

Ten websites, revealing personal information of children thus possibly giving criminals' access to the kids for crimes, will be given one month to stop showing such information or face up to six months in jail and/or Bt60,000 in fine.

Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham, also Social Development and Human Security Minister, Wednesday presided over a meeting of the National Child Protection Committee for a policy to protect Thai children's information on the online world.

As many children were fond of using webistes' services to search for new friends or to post information onto websites and web boards, this resulted to criminals making use of such information access to get to the kids for crimes such as rape, theft and murder, Paiboon said. Thus the meeting assigned a subcommittee for the protection of children's personal information on Information Technology system to launch measures to prevent websites operators and Internet to reveal personal information of children under 18, he said.

Such measures were inline with the Child Protection Act's article 27 that prohibited anyone to advertise or publish personal information of children with intention to damage the children's mentality, reputation and other rights or to seek benefit for the publisher himself or others, Paiboon said.

If any business operators had intention to reveal children's personal information, he would be punishable for up to six months in jail and/or Bt60,000 in fine according to this law, he said.

Source: The Nation - 22 November 2007

[Pushit]

Websites told to protect children's information

Ten websites, revealing personal information of children thus possibly giving criminals' access to the kids for crimes, will be given one month to stop showing such information or face up to six months in jail and/or Bt60,000 in fine.

Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham, also Social Development and Human Security Minister, Wednesday presided over a meeting of the National Child Protection Committee for a policy to protect Thai children's information on the online world.

As many children were fond of using webistes' services to search for new friends or to post information onto websites and web boards, this resulted to criminals making use of such information access to get to the kids for crimes such as rape, theft and murder, Paiboon said. Thus the meeting assigned a subcommittee for the protection of children's personal information on Information Technology system to launch measures to prevent websites operators and Internet to reveal personal information of children under 18, he said.

Such measures were inline with the Child Protection Act's article 27 that prohibited anyone to advertise or publish personal information of children with intention to damage the children's mentality, reputation and other rights or to seek benefit for the publisher himself or others, Paiboon said.

If any business operators had intention to reveal children's personal information, he would be punishable for up to six months in jail and/or Bt60,000 in fine according to this law, he said.

Source: The Nation - 22 November 2007

So are myspace, youtube, facebook and the rest going to be blocked??

[george]

How could a webmaster know the real age of a site visitor, under 18 or not?

[John K]

How could a webmaster know the real age of a site visitor, under 18 or not?

George the answer is simple. Just ask Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Development and Human Security Paiboon Wattanasiritham exactly how that is to be done and have him provide a demonstration. Once he has successfully done that then the websites can proceed per instruction.

It is nice to see thing are starting to get back to normal with well thought out ideas.

[Ijustwannateach]

I think at least one reason for this announcement is to send the message to adult-oriented dating websites that they can't have minors openly posting details on the site- for example, dating sites which at the moment might allow a profile in which the age is listed as 16. With the new regulation, the website at least has plausible deniability that the person using the site has claimed to be an adult, in case he/she is inadvertently exposed to any kind of adult content. That won't stop young people from registering and lying, but it means that the website owner can say that he didn't promote any kind of inappropriate adult-child interaction. It's not a bad idea and pretty standard practice at most adult personals sites in the English-speaking world.

"S"

[ThaidleHands]

So are myspace, youtube, facebook and the rest going to be blocked??

If so, just another case of "dog bark at airplane".

[Scott]

I don't have much of an opinion one way or the other, but does this mean all the perverts will be back out on the streets!

[Scott]

Oh, and what happens to all those undercover police, who pose as underage kids looking for sex--do they still get to go online!

[girlx]

Bangkok Post

Thursday, November 22, 2007

By Anjira Assavanonda

Local website operators will be given a one-month deadline to ensure the privacy of people under the age of 18 on the internet or face legal action. Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham said they must make sure that their websites displayed no personal information about under-18s in a way that would allow others to search the data to gain access to them.

Prohibited information includes age, sex, phone number, email address, logon name for chat lines, photos and names of their schools.

The measures, approved by the Child Protection Committee, fall under Article 27 of the Child Protection Act, which prohibits advertising or revealing information about young people in a way that could damage their mental well-being or reputation, or take advantage of them. Mr Paiboon said the restriction was aimed at sparing young people from abuse in the cyber world.

Dr Krisada Rueng-areerat, a member of the Committee for Safe and Creative Media, said local websites which fail to comply will be liable to a maximum of six months in jail and/or a fine of 60,000 baht. At least 10 of 50 popular websites were violating the rules, he said.

[thai_narak]

TV is safe with this, i'm sure there are no minor posters here and most are nearly 81.