US urges tech bosses to resist Vietnam law

A new cybersecurity law in Vietnam is designed to protect online rights and create a “safe and healthy cyberspace”, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, although critics have warned it gives the communistruled state more power to crack down on dissent. Seventeen US legislators wrote to the CEOs of Facebook and Google on Wednesday, urging them to resist changes wrought by the new law, which requires foreign tech firms to store in Vietnam personal data on users and to open offices there.