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Published on September 1, 2007

The participants signed an agreement yesterday at the Swissotel Le Concorde hotel and announced they would stop any violation they were informed about by blocking parts of any website, or indeed the whole website, if they found its contents were not appropriate, as well as arranging cooperation between the complainants and police if severe violation of law was discovered.

Violations of the right to privacy as defined by the operators of the new website include causing shame to any person, such as posting inappropriate photographs, video clips or personal information.

They include the Thai Internet Service Provider and Thai Webmaster associations, the Advertising Association of Thailand and 17 ISPs and 4 webmasters from TOT, CAT, True Internet, Samart, KSC, pantip.com, kapook.com and sanook.com.

Thai Webmaster Associa-tion chairman Poramate Min-siri said that as his association represented website caretakers, after receiving a complaint staff would refer it to the offending website if it was in their network to consider whether the webmaster should block the part complained about.

"Eighteen countries have already formed the same cooperation as Thailand, so if we have information regarding the violation of the right to privacy on the Internet, we will be one of their members sharing ideas on how to deal with violations in our country, and if it's possible we will extend the scope of user protection," Poramate said.

Thai Internet Service Provider Association chairwoman Morragot Kulatumyotin said that if an illegal act was found, authorities would cooperate as a medium between the affected persons and the police.

"People wanting to complain have to be directly affected persons or their relatives. They have to prove their rights have been violated," Athueck Asvanund, vice chairman of True Corporation, said.

Wannapa Phetdee

 The Nation