"The office must be established this year," Digital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta said after the commission's inaugural meeting on Monday. Nevertheless, "a vast amount of data has been hacked from banks", Mr Buddhipongse said. "Fake news is not the only threat we are facing," Mr Buddhipongse said. One case involved an alleged hacker and his accomplices accused of using a computer program to illegally acquire Line group users' information, Mr Buddhiponse said earlier. Under the Computer Crime Act, it is illegal to anonymously acquire personal information by using computer systems and also to share obscene links.

Source: Bangkok Post January 13, 2020 23:03 UTC