The Presidential Office has announced the President's Order announcing the Law on Civil Status (amended) passed by the 16th National Assembly at the First Session.
This Law stipulates civil status, civil status registration, civil status databases (CSDL) and state management of civil status.
In Article 24 on building and managing civil status databases, this Law stipulates that civil status databases are national databases, built centrally and uniformly from central to local levels, managed by the Ministry of Justice.
The construction of civil status databases must ensure expansion, upgrading, development, connection, and sharing with other databases; ensure the right to exploit information of agencies, organizations, and individuals in accordance with the law; ensure the full storage of personal civil status information during collection, update, and adjustment in the database.
According to the provisions of the law, the civil status database is kept confidential, ensuring safety and protecting personal data; only competent agencies, organizations, and individuals are allowed to access and exploit it in accordance with the law.
In Article 27 on protecting civil status databases, the Law clearly states that the agency managing the civil status database, the civil status registration agency, and the civil status management agency, within the scope of their functions and tasks, have the following responsibilities:
First, ensure the safety of equipment for collecting, storing, transmitting, processing, and exchanging civil status information.
Second, protect personal data, civil status information security on computer networks; ensure information security stored in databases; prevent and combat acts of illegal access and use, damaging civil status databases.
