The new Computer Crime Act lacks a mandate to impose punishments on ISPs and social media firms. The draft ministerial notifications will become law 60 days after the Computer Crime Act becomes effective. The second covers regulations governing spam, including the provision that service providers have an opt-out feature for it. With regards to the word "delete", technical difficulties faced by service providers should be taken into account, he said. But Mr Dhiraphol said certain service providers, especially cloud service providers, do not know have such knowledge or control over the related data.

Source: Bangkok Post May 23, 2017 23:58 UTC