The Myanmar government has approved an oppressive Cybersecurity Law in an attempt to further persecute dissidents and limit ...

A new cybersecurity law came into force in Myanmar on 1 January 2025, with VPN usage and digital freedoms under threat.

Myanmar's internet has been under strict control following the 2021 coup. Social media platforms, along with independent and ...

BANGKOK -- Military-ruled Myanmar, already notorious for cracking down on free speech, has enacted a new cybersecurity law with wide-ranging controls on the flow of information, according to a ...

Myanmar’s military government officially enacted a cybersecurity law on Wednesday that regulates digital communication and penalizes various cyber crimes, according to a local newspaper that has ...

Myanmar’s military junta has passed its long-threatened Cybersecurity Law, which aims to tighten its control over vital arteries of communication amid the country’s intensifying civil war.

The law also mandates that cybersecurity and digital platform service providers with more than 100,000 users in Myanmar must register. The regime reserves the right to inspect or control these ...

There have also been actions to block websites and apps at the network level, keeping end-users from accessing content the army doesn't want them to see. Technology from China and Russia, the ...

Penalties for cyber misuse. Engaging in cyber misuse—including the alteration, deletion, or sale of computer programs or data ...

This is what people in Myanmar now risk for using a VPN service without approval after a new controversial cybersecurity law was enacted on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. According to the military ...