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Law / Vietnam

Law on Artificial Intelligence, prohibited practices

Law No. 134/2025/QH15, art. 7

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In force 7 months, effective 1 March 2026.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not use an AI system with forged or simulated real people or events to intentionally and systematically deceive or manipulate people's perceptions or behaviour in a way that seriously harms their rights.
  • Do not use an AI system to exploit a vulnerable group, including children, the elderly, people with disabilities, or people with limited cognitive or civil-act capacity, in a way that causes them harm.
  • Do not collect, process, or use data to develop, train, test, or operate an AI system in violation of Vietnam's data, personal data protection, intellectual property, or cybersecurity law.
  • Do not obstruct, disable, or distort the human-oversight mechanisms this Law requires over your AI system.

What it reaches

How the hook was established

express

What makes it apply

Place of effect

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 7 is a closed list of prohibited acts (deceptive or manipulative use of forged or simulated content, exploiting a vulnerable group, unlawful data practices, and obstructing an AI system's required human-oversight mechanisms). A prohibition states what may not be done; nothing in Article 7 requires creating, keeping or producing a log or record.

Kind
None
As of
22 September 2026

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Article 7 bars developing, providing, deploying, or using an AI system to use forged elements or simulations of real people or events to intentionally and systematically deceive or manipulate human perceptions or behaviour where this causes serious harm, to exploit weaknesses of a vulnerable group such as children, the elderly, people with disabilities, or people with limited cognitive or civil-act capacity, or to create or disseminate fake content capable of posing a serious danger to national security, public order, or social safety.

It separately bars collecting, processing, or using data to develop, train, test, or operate an AI system in a way that contravenes Vietnam's data, personal data protection, intellectual property, or cybersecurity law, and bars obstructing, disabling, or distorting the human-oversight mechanisms the Law requires over an AI system.

When LexLint raises it

  • generates_content
  • processes_voice
  • processes_biometrics
  • trains_models
  • crawls_web
  • high_risk_decisions
  • automated_outreach

Read the law

Unofficial English translation of the Official Gazette text (LuatVietnam), not the Government Portal's or Official Gazette's own text

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