Websites told to protect children's information

Deputy Prime Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham, also Social Development and Human Security Minister, Wednesday presided over a meeting of the National Child Protection Committee for a policy to protect Thai children's information on the online world.

As many children were fond of using webistes' services to search for new friends or to post information onto websites and web boards, this resulted to criminals making use of such information access to get to the kids for crimes such as rape, theft and murder, Paiboon said. Thus the meeting assigned a subcommittee for the protection of children's personal information on Information Technology system to launch measures to prevent websites operators and Internet to reveal personal information of children under 18, he said.

Such measures were inline with the Child Protection Act's article 27 that prohibited anyone to advertise or publish personal information of children with intention to damage the children's mentality, reputation and other rights or to seek benefit for the publisher himself or others, Paiboon said.

If any business operators had intention to reveal children's personal information, he would be punishable for up to six months in jail and/or Bt60,000 in fine according to this law, he said.

The Nation