Cyber Security Legal Policies for Global Citizens

Abstract

This article aims to study the legal policies of various countries, which have been enacted to regulate, supervise, control, and protect the cyber security for citizens of the countries and citizens of the world. As the result of the study, it is found that the evolution in the cyberworlds has developed into a cyberculture; countries around the world, including superpowers, European Union countries, the United States of America, China, as well as Thailand, have found a way to solve problems and crimes that occur in the cyberworlds. Measures have been sought to control and regulate in terms of policy, law and other aspects. As for the cyber security legal policy, every country has set cyber security policy as an important main policy. In regard to the law, every country has enacted cyber security laws, and required the establishment of an organization to specifically supervise the cyber security, with similar principles of practice; certain differences lie on the focus on maintaining the security and sovereignty of each country and the method of enforcement, which depends on the administrative and social context of each country. Most of the citizens of Thailand and the world nowadays are involved in the cyberworlds; therefore, one should first study the cyber security legal context of the country where one wants to conduct transactions in the cyberworlds in order to reduce cyber risks.