Subscription 45 (5/2001) 31 October 2001 Article 7 1. State administrative bodies, entities and enterprises providing internet services shall be responsible for strengthening the work of dissemination, education and guidance of users using internet services aimed at exploiting and using information on the internet in accordance with law and preventing prohibited acts stipulated in article 11 of this Decree. 2. Organizations and individuals using the internet shall be responsible for complying with the laws relating to the internet in order to exploit and use effectively and healthily the internet. Article 8 Confidentiality of private information of organizations and individuals on the internet shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the law. The authorized State body shall control information on the internet in accordance with the provisions of the law. Article 9 No person shall be permitted to obstruct the lawful right to use internet services. Entities and enterprises providing internet services shall be entitled to refuse to provide services in the case where an organization or individual using such services breaches the laws relating to the internet. Article 10 The coding and decoding of information on the internet must comply with the laws relating to encryption. Article 11 The following acts shall be prohibited: 1. Disabling or destroying systems of equipment and obstructing the provision and use of internet services. 2. Stealing and illegally using passwords, encryption codes and private information of organizations and individuals on the internet. 3. Abusing the internet to oppose the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; disrupting security and order; infringing upon ethics and fine customs, and committing other breaches of the law. © Ministry of Planning and Investment and Phillips Fox IX-1107