Chapter 1.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
This Decree specifies the management, provision, use of Internet services, online information, and online games, and assurance of information security; rights and obligations of organizations and individuals to the management, provision, use of Internet services, online information, online games, and assurance of information security.
Article 2. Subjects of application
This Decree is applicable to Vietnamese and foreign organizations and individuals engaged in or related to the management, provision, use of Internet services, online information, and online games, and assurance of information security.
Article 3. Interpretation of terms
In this Decree, the terms below are construed as follows:
1. Network refers to telecommunications network (fixed, mobile, Internet) and computer network (WAN, LAN)
2. Internet services are a form of telecommunications services, including Internet access service and Internet connection services:
a) Internet access service is the services that allow Internet users to access the Internet;
b) Internet connection service is the service that allows Internet service providers and telecommunications service providers to connect with each other to share Internet load.
3. Internet exchange point is a system of telecommunication devices installed by an organization or enterprise to provide Internet connection services.
4. Internet service providers are telecommunication enterprise that provide internet services defined in Clause 2 of this Article.
5. Internet agents are organizations and individuals that provide Internet access services for users under internet agent contracts with Internet access service providers to get commission, or resell Internet access services to reap benefits from price differences.
6. Public Internet access points include:
a) The locations where Internet agents may provide services legally;
b) Public Internet access points of enterprises are the locations under the management of affiliated units or representatives of Internet service providers where Internet access services are provided for Internet users.
c) Public Internet access points in hotels, restaurants, docks, bus stations, coffee shops, and other public places are locations where organizations and individuals may legally provide Internet access services for Internet users.
7. Internet users are organizations and individuals that enter into service contracts with Internet access service providers or public Internet access points to use the applications and services on the Internet.
8. Internet resources are the names and numbers under the management of Vietnam, including:
a) The country code top-level domain names “.vn” (hereinafter referred to as “.vn" domain names) other domain names related to national interests of Vietnam; Internet addresses, network codes, names and other numbers that are allocated to Vietnam via Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC);
b) Other international domain names, Internet addresses, names and numbers allocated to organizations and individuals in Vietnam by international organizations.
9. Online game services (hereinafter referred to as game services) are the provision of access to the Internet and online games.
10. Online game service providers (hereinafter referred to as game service providers) are enterprises established in accordance with Vietnam’s law that provide game services by establish a system of equipment and the legal use of video games.
11. Gaming centers are places where organizations and individuals may legally provide players with access to the Internet and video games by establishing a system of equipment at such locations.
12. Online game players (hereinafter referred to as players) are the individuals that enter into contracts with game service providers or gaming centers to play video games
13. Online information is information transmitted, collected, and processed via the Internet.
14. Public information is online information of an organization or individual that is publicly provided without identifications or addresses of receivers.
15. Private information is online information of an organization or individual that is not publicized by that organization or individual, or only provided for a group of receivers that are identified.
16. Private information is the information associated with the identifications of individuals, including names, ages, addresses, ID numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, and other information defined by law.
17. Information service mean provision of public information for service users.
18. Official sources are the information posted or published on Vietnam’s newspapers or websites of the State according to the laws on press and intellectual property.
19. News is information that is collected from multiple sources about politics, economics, culture, or society.
20. Information system is a combination of telecommunications and IT equipment, including hardware, software, and database serving the storage, processing, transmission, sharing, exchange, provision, and use of information.
21. A website is a system of information used for establishing one or multiple pages of information that are displayed in the form of symbols, digits, text, video, audio, and other forms of information serving the provision and use of information on the Internet.
22. Social networking site is a system of information that provides its users with services such as storage, provision, use, search, sharing, and exchange of information, including the provision of private websites, forums, online chats, audio and video sharing, and other similar services.
23. Information safety is the protection for information and information system from illegal access, use, revelation, interruption, or alteration of information in order to ensure the integrity, security, and utility of information.
24. Information security is to ensure that online information does not threaten national security, social order, state secrets, the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
Article 4. Policies on the development and management of Internet and online information.
1. Encourage the use of Internet in all economic and social activities, especially in education, health care, and scientific research in order to raise productivity, create jobs, and improve the quality of life.
2. Encourage the development of contents and applications in Vietnamese to serve Vietnamese community on the Internet. Enhance the upload of healthy and useful information to the Internet.
3. Develop broadband Internet infrastructure in schools, hospitals, research institutes, libraries, state agencies, enterprises, public Internet access points, and households. Focus on the provision of Internet services in rural areas, remote areas, bordering areas, islands, and areas facing extreme socio-economic difficulties.
4. Prevent the abuse of the Internet to threaten national security, social order and safety, to contradict the code of ethics, traditions, and law, Take measures to protect children, adolescents and young people from negative impacts of the internet.
5. Ensure that only legal information is transmitted, even across the border, to Internet users in Vietnam.
6. Encourage and facilitate the use of “.vn" domain names, domain names in Vietnamese, and the conversion to addresses using IPv6 technology (hereinafter referred to as IPv6 technology).
7. Intensify international cooperation in Internet on the basis of mutual benefits, conformity with Vietnam’s law and the International Agreements to which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a signatory.
Article 5. Prohibited acts
1. Using the provision and use of internet services and online information for:
a) Opposing Socialist Republic of Vietnam; threatening the national security, social order and safety; sabotaging the national fraternity; propagating wars and terrorism; arousing animosity and among races and religions.
b) Propagating and incite violence, obscenity, pornography, crimes, social problems, superstition; contradicting national traditions;
c) Revealing state secrets, military, economic, diplomacy secrets, and other secrets defined by the State;
d) Providing false information, slandering or damaging reputation of organizations or dignity of individuals;
dd) Advertising, propagating, trading in banned goods or services; spreading banned publications;
e) Impersonating other organizations and individuals to spread false information, which violates the lawful rights and interests of other organizations and individuals.
2. Illegally obstructing the lawful provision and access to information, the provision and use of lawful services on the Internet of other organizations and individuals.
3. Illegally obstructing the operation of “.vn” domain name system servers (DNS servers), lawful operation of Internet service and online information provision systems.
4. Illegally using passwords of other organizations and individuals, private information, and Internet resources.
5. Creating illegal links to lawful domain names of other organizations and individuals; creating, installing, spreading harmful software or computer virus; illegally accessing or taking control of info systems; making attack tools on the Internet.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 72/2013/NĐ-CP (Bản Word)
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