On Monday, official media claimed that Vietnam would require local and foreign social media users to authenticate their identities to reduce online fraud.
The state-run Voice of Vietnam (VOV) daily said that the proposal, part of the Telecommunications Law Amendment to be released before the end of the year, will allow law enforcement to trace down social media offenders.
“There are times the authorities can identify social media account holders that violate the laws but cannot track them down because those criminals use cross-border applications,” information deputy minister Nguyen Thanh Lam told VOV.
“Unverified accounts on local or foreign platforms like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube will be dealt with.”
The report said both individual and organizational users would be affected. Not all Vietnamese suppliers verify identification. The law requires parliamentary approval. Unknown details.
In recent years, Vietnam has passed many rules and cybersecurity legislation targeting international social media platforms to combat news distortion and require foreign tech corporations to create representative offices and retain data in Vietnam.