KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), Attorney-General Chambers (AGC) and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will take prompt action to strengthen and coordinate all aspects of investigation and prosecution in cases of cybercrimes.
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said this was among the matters finalised at the Cabinet meeting in Putrajaya today.
“Cybercrimes, such as online scams, cyberbullying and sexual grooming, will leave a deep impact (on the victims) either on their mental health or other aspects of life. This is among the reasons why we made this decision,” he told a press conference after the meeting.
Fahmi said issues of online misconduct, scams and sexual grooming of children in the country cannot be allowed to persist and, for that, the MCMC has issued a letter of instruction to a number of social media platforms to get related feedback.
He said MCMC’s monitoring also found that each of those platforms has a different level of compliance with Malaysian laws with some being prompt and complying, some not complying at all, and some very late at responding to the authorities.
Fahmi said Instagram, for one, recorded a compliance rate of 88 per cent, followed by Facebook (85 per cent), WhatsApp (79 per cent), TikTok (76 per cent), Telegram (65 per cent) and X with the lowest compliance rate at 25 per cent.
“Each of these these platforms also has cybercrime issues and harmful content,” he said.
Fahmi explained that among the harmful and fraudulent content found on Facebook are online gambling and harmful artificial intelligence (AI), TikTok (cyberbullying, fake accounts, 3R (religion, royalty and race), Telegram (3R, online gambling, pirated movies, child pornography) and X (3R, cyberbullying and sexual grooming of children).
