Accordingly, besides suffering the main punishment forms, law-breaking telecoms businesses might even receive this harsher sanction instead of the use-to-be suspension from operation or service provision.
The Inspectorate stated that this additional content acts as a deterrent to improve the responsibility of all current telecoms companies, a tool to stop spam SIMs or messages, and scam SMS.
Since Decree No.15/2020/ND-CP only imposes mild punishments for illegal collection and use of sensitive personal information of telecoms service subscribers stored online, it cannot fulfill its deterrent mission. Therefore, Decree No.14/2022/ND-CP has doubled the fine for this crime to VND40-60 million (US$1,700-2,600).
