Thai Minister Orders Cafes, Restaurants to Collect Customers’ WiFi Data

[dynjo]

This has been the case for 11 years already!?

https://thaicrisis.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/they-did-it-law-...

[patchtopic]

There are lots of laws in Thailand that are sporadically, selectively, unevenly or not at all enforced.

The TM30 foreign resident laws in Thailand were put on the books in 1979 but they only decided to start enforcing them (albeit extremely inconsistently) in the last few months.

[PeterStuer]

Given how much confusion reigns e.g. in Europe around data retention for public wifi, don't be surprised when your local public hotspot or hotel wifi collects more than it should.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/publi...

[taurath]

That seems incredibly onerous, or a great way to ensure wifi isn’t offered.

[tecleandor]

I've been working there this summer and they're already requesting personal information and ID when logging in free Wi-Fi spots (although they don't verify it) . They probably log some other information.

They usually do it through third party providers who manage their wifi spots, probably in exchange of some ads.

[gaius_baltar]

> That seems incredibly onerous, or a great way to ensure wifi isn’t offered.

Perhaps that's the idea.

[Canada]

This just isn't going to happen.

[devoply]

VPN problemo solved.

[angry_octet]

It's traffic analysis. They know when something 'subversive' gets posted, they can filter out who was connecting to the site at that time, get a list of suspects. Obviously 99% of the traffic is coming from mobiles which have great metadata tagging already, also geolocation. Cafe wifi you can use from across the road, in a busy place etc, much harder.

[tenebrisalietum]

They'll know you're using a VPN. You'll still be suspicious.