News Forum - Thai government shuts down Mor Chana contact-tracing app

[Thaiger]

The Mor Chana contact-tracing app is no more, with the Public Health Ministry confirming it has been shut down. Officials say the app is no longer required and therefore was closed yesterday, in light of Thailand’s improving Covid-19 situation. Unlike the Mor Prom app, which was created to record an individual’s vaccination status, track vaccine side-effects, and provide data on the national vaccine rollout, the Mor Chana app was developed to track users’ whereabouts and let them know if they’d been anywhere where Covid-19 infections had been reported. People could use the app to log their whereabouts, be informed of […]

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[Dialemco]

Good news now shut down the Thailand Pass and let us all get on with are lives 

[Chatogaster]

Will the shutdown be followed by erasing or at least anonymizing the huge amount of data it has amassed?

[Cabra]

Deleted it off my phone yesterday. Good riddance. 

[Artemis080]

Oh that thing..I remember that. And never once using it and having it on my phone for about a sum total of 2 minutes.

[Soidog]

2 hours ago, Chatogaster said:

Will the shutdown be followed by erasing or at least anonymizing the huge amount of data it has amassed?

It was closed down 1 minute before the new PDPA law came in to force. So it’s ok then