With the runaway digital boom, Thailand faces a critical question: Is the country adequately prepared to shield its citizens’ personal information from potential misuse? Due to their rapid growth, digital platform businesses propelled their value to over 900 billion baht in 2021. Their prowess lies in their capacity to compile and process vast data, enabling […]
Is it wrong to post video clips or photos of children on social media? Maybe this is the wrong question. Instead, we should ask whether those posts are legal or not. The question of the appropriateness of posting children’s photos or video clips on social media has raised a storm of debate recently with an […]
Only one month after enforcing the law to protect the Thai people’s personal data security and privacy, the government had a change of heart. Instead of imposing the PDPA law on all organisations that handle data, the government has helped some government agencies to bypass the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in the name of […]
Cyber attacks and ransomware have become crimes of modern digital society. Yet, in Thailand what is of new concern is the attack on government database sources – particularly those of state hospitals. In September last year, Saraburi Hospital’s database was hacked and the attackers gained access to information of patients. Last month alone there were […]
