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Human Right Concerns in Vietnam’s Cybersecurity Law: From International Discourse to a Comparative Perspective

Abstract Vietnam's Cyber Security Law, which officially came into effect on the first day of 2019, is considered by the Vietnamese authorities to be an important advance of the Vietnamese legal system in catching up with new information technology issues and addressing the challenges of the Rev...

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Published in:Journal of human rights practice 2022-12, Vol.14 (3), p.968-985
Main Authors: Nguyen, Quoc-Tan-Trung, Bui, Thi-Hong-Ninh, Phung, Hong-Thanh
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