Officers fighting cyber crime should not target intermediaries such as Internet service providers, webmasters and search engines because it is ineffective and allows real criminal to get undetected, hurting the economy and the community, according to the Thai Netizen Network (TNN).
Intermediaries tend to censor themselves because they do not want to risk being involved in crimes they haven't committed, said TNN a group of online activists, bloggers and Internet providers.
Laws that enforce the intermediaries to collect traffic data for at least 90 days could be considered as pushing the officers' burden onto ordinary citizens, the network said.
It was addressing a seminar, "On the Case Related to Computer-Related Crime Act," held by TNN, Media Legal Defence and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Law lecturer, Thossapon Tassanakulpan said Section 14 of the Computer Crime Act's refernce to "the importing to a computer system of any computer data related with an offence against the national security under the Criminal Code," was obscure and needed to be redefined.
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