The Ministry of Digital Financial system and Society (DES) is mulling a nationwide web gateway, claiming it might assist the federal government curb cyber criminals abroad focusing on folks in Thailand.
DES Minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn informed a Home assembly on Friday {that a} “single web gateway” can deter cybercrime and different felony actions.
Mr Chaiwut stated the federal government solely has restricted capability to dam info deemed unlawful in Thailand from reaching goal audiences.
Criminals can simply determine potential victims over the web, he stated. He stated victims might be exploited by gangs who goal to entrap them in numerous cons.
“Together with contemplating amending the Laptop Crime Act, the federal government is finding out the potential of utilizing a single web gateway as a software to raised management the move of unlawful info on-line to enhance the security of web customers,” he stated.
A research was being performed to determine which components of the regulation should be modified.
“The federal government has been working to curb cybercrime. Over the previous yr police have busted 3,000 to 4,000 such instances with the assistance of their Cambodian counterparts,” he stated, referring to crackdowns on name centre gangs working remotely from the neighbouring nation.
As a result of these gangs knew they’d have been arrested promptly if they’d operated in Thailand, they selected to function from the neighbouring nation as an alternative, he stated.
The federal government appreciates the lively cooperation provided by Cambodian police in serving to monitor down the criminals to face authorized motion in Thailand, he stated.
Many victims in Thailand have misplaced thousands and thousands of baht to those gangs, he stated. The stolen cash is siphoned off in a couple of minutes utilizing digital means, making it troublesome to hint later.
The nationwide web gateway concept was introduced up in 2015 by the military-installed authorities and confronted sturdy opposition by numerous teams, together with ones launching cyber-attacks on the federal government’s web sites in protest towards implementation of the thought.