"Vietnam's National Assembly Approves 'Cybersecurity' Law, Further Limiting Online Debate" 12 June 2018

Vietnam's National Assembly has approved new legislation aimed at further restricting citizens' use of the internet...to require providers to delete posts considered "threatening" to national security and to store users' personal information inside the country.

...Clare Algar, Amnesty's director of global operations...the new law can work only if foreign-based companies like Facebook and Google agree to demands by Vietnam to "hand over" private data, Algar urged tech firms to push back against requests for cooperation.

"These companies must not be party to human rights abuses," she said.

Duy Hoang, spokesman for Viet Tan...said..."It would be a tremendous business mistake and reputational catastrophe for any internet company to house it servers and data inside Vietnam," warned Hoang.