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As of August 23rd 2008 private firms, organisations and government agencies in Thailand will be required to store all internet traffic data for 90 days...
From the Nation
Beginning from August 23, all businesses and government agencies that provide computers and other related services must keep records of computer and Internet use and Internet traffic for the last 90 days.
This is a part of the 2007 Computer Crimes Act, which took effect on July 18 last year. Granted a grace period of one year, only local Internet Service Providers have so far compiled to the law. Now it is time for the remaining entities, designated as the so-called "third and last group", follow the law.
This includes all government agencies, private and government schools, apartments and residential complexes, online game shops and Internet cafes. Those who fail to comply with the law will face a Bt500,000 fine.
The Act indeed applies to operators of both mobile and fixed line telephone services, who have built data storage facilities to record their clients' usage.
Under this law, businesses, schools and government organizations have to provide data storage facilities to collect users' identification details such as names and addresses of people registered with websites or online applications, logs of Internet use and Internet Protocol addresses and URLs to websites surfed by those users.
Pol Colonel Yannaphol Yangyuen, a senior Department of Special Investigation official, said it would be a priority for organisations to prevent employees from harassing people by sending insulting or defamatory messages on web boards or forwarding pornographic material via email by setting up recording procedures for internal computer use. They must make the stored information available every 90 days
The 2007 Computer Crimes Act is the first Thai law that aims to tackle all types of electronic crime committed through the use of computers and information technology.