Information About PAC’s A Public Access Center (PAC) license costs $60/ month, and while not all cybercafés are licensed PACs, this is the operational route required by the government to be licensed. Both PAC management and individual customer use come with extensive requirements. For example, each computer is required to have key loggers and a screenshot taken and stored every 5 minutes, and every other week all screenshots and accompanying data are required to be put onto a CD and sent to Myanmar Info-Tech. Anecdotally, many PAC owners use spyware to watch what their users are doing, often for their own interests.66 Myanmar PAC Regulations 1. All cybercafé users must supply their name, identity card or Passport Number, address, and phone number to the cybercafé. Cyber cafe owners must record their identities.67 2. Internet Usage must be recorded in Date/Time/Screen Shot/URLs format and sent to Myanmar Info-Tech via CD-Rom every 2 weeks. 3. Owners and operators of cybercafés must keep backup logs of Internet usage. 4. Screenshots must be taken every 5 minutes. 5. Monitors must be faced to side where they can be easily viewed publicly. 6. Cybercafés must post a sign stating, "Only subscribers of MPT's official email and Mail4U can use email. Other email use is not allowed." 7. Cybercafés must post a sign stating, "Tunneling Website/Software are prohibited." 8. Cybercafés must post a sign stating that "Cyber Crimes (Hacking, Virus Distribution, Port scanning and etc.) and acts against Myanmar culture are prohibited". 9. No access of political web sites is allowed. 66 Multiple conversations with local IT professionals See Appendix II, Photo 6 for original version in Myanmar. See “Burmese regulations for cybercafés stringent as expected,” OpenNet Initiative, July 2, 2008, http://opennet.net/blog/2008/07/Myanmar-regulations-cybercafes-stringent-expected. 67 25

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