News Forum - Woman feared prison if she took photos of burglary due to new PDPA law

[Thaiger]

A Thai woman witnessed thieves break into a neighbour’s house but didn’t take any pictures of the burglars for fear of going to prison under the new Personal Data Protection Act. The 23 year old admitted she was too scared to take photos of the criminals’ faces because she was afraid of being sued under the new PDPA law which came into effect yesterday. The woman, called Wipaporn, revealed she heard and then saw two men enter a rental house in the Meung district of Rayong in the early hours of Tuesday, May 31. She bravely approached the men to […]

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[Soidog]

Im not surprised after the utter nonsense spouted by a senior police officer yesterday. In a country with relatively low education standards and even lower capabilities to think for oneself, you need clear rules. Not the utter claptrap from yesterdays announcements regarding photographing or recording other people. 

[Chatogaster]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

[A minister said...] Uploading pictures to social media platforms that accidentally included others isn’t wrong if the person posting those images didn’t aim to insult those persons.

 

The act (*) seems well-intentional overall. However, it also seems to have started out with organizations in mind and then threw in civilians as an afterthought.

Take for example the astonishingly short chapter VI, Civil Liability. It states (in section 77) that people will be liable for damages, even if those damages were caused unintentionally (only force majeure and duties by government officials are excepted!). That bluntly contradicts the quoted claim (just to be complete: other sections don't limit liability, at best they limit grounds on which consent is not mandatory, like when taking a picture). 

However, it's the claim that actually makes sense (from a moral/practical point of view), so it's the act that needs fine-tuning. Too bad it's in effect already... The confusion is very understandable.

(*) https://thainetizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/thailand-personal-data-protection-act-2019-en.pdf

 

[Thaidup]

1 hour ago, Soidog said:

Im not surprised after the utter nonsense spouted by a senior police officer yesterday. In a country with relatively low education standards and even lower capabilities to think for oneself, you need clear rules. Not the utter claptrap from yesterdays announcements regarding photographing or recording other people. 

In other words, I love Thailand.

[Soidog]

1 hour ago, Thaidup said:

In other words, I love Thailand.

I do love Thailand and I think the vast majority of Thais are decent and likeable people. It’s the nut jobs running the country that I have NO time for

[Boddown]

Just another law they can use to keep the public under control and intimate them with

[Poolie]

6 minutes ago, Boddown said:

Just another law they can use to keep the public under control and intimate them with

That's what most laws are for anywhere isn't it?

[Soidog]

2 hours ago, Boddown said:

Just another law they can use to keep the public under control and intimate them with

Correct. It’s a law with the intention of protecting individuals private data. To protect them from companies making profit from that data and selling it on. In developed countries that’s how it was implemented and remains the spirit and letter of the law. In Thailand there is no doubt that the spirit of that law will be twisted to control and intimidate. 
 

Once again, Thailand will be able to show the world it has progressive laws such as data protection. It will fool foreign investors and governments in to seeing Thailand as a safe and progressive country. Meanwhile the elite will use it in a negative, manipulative, controlling and an intimidating way.  The computer related crime act and defamation laws applied in Thailand are other examples of the same scam. 

[HolyCowCm]

3 hours ago, Boddown said:

Just another law they can use to keep the public under control and intimate them with

This may be in the bigger paln of conceiling the big-fry ones in the spotlight. Like they will haev the money to easily come back and sue and ruin anyone that exposes them in any light they are seen in.

[DiJoDavO]

And this rule isn't going to be abused by anyone at aalllllll..... 

[Fanta]

This lady was more afraid of the law then helping the law. 

[Soidog]

28 minutes ago, HolyCowCm said:

This may be in the bigger paln of conceiling the big-fry ones in the spotlight. Like they will haev the money to easily come back and sue and ruin anyone that exposes them in any light they are seen in.

Exactly right. So a politician in a nightclub come strip joint can relax now. Anyone who snaps a picture of him will know they will be imprisoned or financially ruined or both. Another law which will drive the wedge even deeper in to the fractured Thai society. 

[HolyCowCm]

6 hours ago, Soidog said:

Exactly right. So a politician in a nightclub come strip joint can relax now. Anyone who snaps a picture of him will know they will be imprisoned or financially ruined or both. Another law which will drive the wedge even deeper in to the fractured Thai society. 

Yea essentially how I see it. So to speak   During Covid some of them got caught with their pants down when it was illegal to gather and do so. Those ones caught red handed seemed to have their stories disappear after a little bit of time went by.