Vietnam Demands Big Tech Localize Data Storage and Offices (theregister.com) 6
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications updated cybersecurity laws this week to mandate Big Tech and telecoms companies store user data locally, and control that data with local entities. The Register reports: The data affected goes beyond the basics of name, email, credit card information, phone number and IP address, and extends into social elements -- including groups of which users are members, or the friends with whom they digitally interact. "Data of all internet users ranging from financial records and biometric data to information on people's ethnicity and political views, or any data created by users while surfing the internet must be to stored domestically," read the decree (PDF) issued Wednesday, as translated by Reuters. The decree applies to a wide swath of businesses including those providing telecom services, storing and sharing data in cyberspace, providing national or international domain names for users in Vietnam, e-commerce, online payments, payment intermediaries, transport connection services operating in cyberspace, social media, online video games, messaging services, and voice or video calls.
According to Article 26 of the government's Decree 53, the new rules go into effect October 1, 2022 -- around seven weeks from the date of its announcement. However, foreign companies have an entire 12 months in which to comply -- beginning when they receive instructions from the Minister of Public Security. The companies are then required to store the data in Vietnam for a minimum of 24 months. System logs will need to be stored for 12 months. After this grace period, authorities reserve the right to make sure affected companies are following the law through investigations and data collection requests, as well as content removal orders. Further reading: Vietnam To Make Apple Watch, MacBook For First Time Ever
According to Article 26 of the government's Decree 53, the new rules go into effect October 1, 2022 -- around seven weeks from the date of its announcement. However, foreign companies have an entire 12 months in which to comply -- beginning when they receive instructions from the Minister of Public Security. The companies are then required to store the data in Vietnam for a minimum of 24 months. System logs will need to be stored for 12 months. After this grace period, authorities reserve the right to make sure affected companies are following the law through investigations and data collection requests, as well as content removal orders. Further reading: Vietnam To Make Apple Watch, MacBook For First Time Ever
There's an easy fix for this (Score:5, Interesting)
It might be impractical to tell China's powerful regime to screw off, then stop doing business with them. Vietnam, though, is another matter entirely. "Big Tech" can tell the Vietnamese government it can keep being part of the world, or it can take a big step back to being a Chinese slave state. Vietnam worked long and hard to establish some degree of independence from China after the US tucked tail and ran. If the multi-nationals choose to dig in their heels, they can offer the Vietnamese government this very unpleasant choice. If the US government has any sense, it will encourage them.
Re:There's an easy fix for this (Score:5, Interesting)
American corporations also have an unpleasant choice, to continue kow-towing to China's IP theft, authoritarianism and imperialism, or move to greener pastures, such as Vietnam.
Governments have 3 reasons for demanding in-country data-silos: 1) Protecting citizens from whichever country hosts the head-office, 2) 'Winning' the war on terror (which the USA demands), 3) spying on their own citizens.
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Given the relative negotiating positions, I believe my analysis stands up. If Vietnam wants to go crawling back to China, it can do so. There's plenty of other green pastures.
HAHAHA! (Score:2)
So, I did you hear that Vietnam is going off the internet. ;)
Countries demanding local storage are evil (Score:2)
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