Legal Counselling

Vietnam’s regulations on lease of digital information storage space

Anh Tú

11:30, 12/01/2011

According to Vietnam’s regulations, lease of digital information storage space means the service of leasing the storage equipment capacity for information storage in the network environment.

According to Article 18 of the Law on Information Technology 2006 of Vietnam, the contents of digital information to be stored must not breach the provisions of Clause 2, Article 12 of this Law.

Concurrently, organizations and individuals that lease space for digital information storage have the following responsibilities:

- To comply with competent state agencies' request to determine lists of owners that hire digital information storage space for the establishment of their websites and lists of owners of digital information stored by such organizations or individuals;

- To promptly take necessary measures to stop the illegal access to or illegal deletion of digital information at the request of competent state agencies;

- Where they themselves detect, or are informed by competent state agencies that the stored information is illegal, to cease leasing digital information storage space to other organizations or individuals;

- To ensure confidentiality of information of organizations or individuals that hire information storage space.

View relevant contents at the Law on Information Technology 2006 of Vietnam issued on June 29, 2006, officially effective from January 01, 2007.

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