The Internet and storage service providers will have to promptly inform the authorities if their clients perform illicit activities. They are obliged to provide information to help identify the service recipients. The Government on November 16 approved a bill to amend and supplement the Law on Electronic Trading, IPN reports.
The document provides that this information can be presented to the Ministry of the Interior, the Information and Intelligence Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Under the bill, the Internet and storage service providers must ensure an easily accessible and visible device for the public for the purpose. Also, when processing personal data, the providers must be obliged to respect the confidentiality regime so that the data cannot be destroyed, modified, blocked, copied or spread illegally. If the personal data need to be processes for preventing, investigating and identifying acts of fraud related to the information society services, these are used without the consent of the person to whom the data refer.
The violation by the service providers of the provisions of the law carries civil, criminal and contravention liability. When the provider finds out that the activity or stored information is illicit, this is obliged to act promptly to remove the information or to block access to this. The provider can find out about this from a written order confirming the illegality of the activity by a court or a competent authority or from a notification by an interested person. In such cases, the information must be blocked or deleted.
The provisions of the law take effect in nine months of the publication in the Official Gazette.
