Privacy fears grow in Thailand over hacking revelations

[buksida]

The Thai military and police struck deals as recently as December to allow them to use hacking software to monitor mobile phones and computers, raising concerns of privacy violations.
Hacking Team's (HT) leaked documents name Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police as customers of its remote control systems (RCS) also known as Galileo and Da Vinci.

The revelation came after WikiLeaks released more than one million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team (HT) on July 8, showing the inner workings of the controversial global surveillance industry.

The Bangkok Post Sunday learned of the deals by sifting through hundreds of the company’s emails and documents, which name the Royal Thai Army and Royal Thai Police as customers of its remote control systems.

http://atimes.com/2015/07/privacy-fears ... velations/

More: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... evelations

Thought: Wonder why they threatened to cut off service if you didn't register your phone?

[Arlo]

This spying on everyone by governments needs to stop. People should be allowed privacy in every aspect of their lives.

[buksida]

How Asia’s governments spy on their citizens
If you live in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand or Vietnam and you are an activist or a journalist, the government probably knows a lot more about the inside of your computer than you think, and more than you want it to.

http://www.asiasentinel.com/society/asi ... -citizens/