Internet data law goes into force Aug 23

KING-OUA LAOHONG

From Aug 23, private firms, organisations and government agencies will be required to store all internet traffic data for 90 days so it is available as digital evidence for police. Pol Col Yannapol Youngyuen, commander of the Bureau of Technology and Cyber Crime at the Department of Special Investigation, said the IT Ministry order has no exceptions and will include banks, hotels, schools and internet cafes.

He said digital evidence gathered from computers is useful in tracking those engaged in cyber crime.

Cyber offences, ranging from email forwarding of pornographic pictures to posting libellous messages on forums, are on the rise, Pol Col Yannapol said, but police agencies find it hard to gather the evidence to bring the perpetrators to justice.

He said internet cafes will also be required to collect information to identify computer users, such as ID cards, time of logging in and sites visited. Shops that fail to heed the rules will face fines up to 500,000 baht, he said.

So if you own a company with shared internet access for your employees you have to install a log system and keep the logs for 90 days.

With a fine up to 500,000 THB they could make bigger announcements...

Please all say a big thank you to the coup makers and their appointed NLA for this law, and to the present government for not scrapping it .

I wonder if these rules also apply to the ISPs? If so, why bother the end users with this crap..

Edited August 13, 200817 yr by niller74

This rules apply to ISPs, but until now the question was wether it'd apply to individual businesses.

Why bother the end users? Because if a cyber crime act is made using a computer of a company, if the company logs traffic then you can find the individual user who committed the crime.

But I don't know what needs to be logged exactly?

Btw, this text comes from a Bangkok Post article, which I found via Thailand Crisis blog.

And what they are going to get is a bunch of connection requests with IPs assigned from an internal DHCP within the company. Then what? I would be the first one to set lease time to an absolute minimum and force new IPs every time just to scramble the data in case they wanted to see my logs.

This law is made by someone with absolutely no concept of what is required.

I wouldn't be surprised if connection logs wasn't enough, but they wanted the actual data.

This will also be the end of free Hot-Spots...

Topic already running here > http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thailand-s-I...ug-t206147.html