Thai Chana app

[Governor]

For visitors to Bluport who have the M Card App on their smartphones, Thai Chana is on the App and in English.
As you enter, have the M Card App open and near the top right hand corner there's a "check-in" button with a picture of a smart phone, you need to enter your phone number once and set the language to English, and you're good to go.
Also as BB noted, there is no record or info regarding the capacity of the mall
Incindentally I then went into Villa where they use a book to check you in, but not out, seems I followed somebody famous into the store, a Mr M Mouse.

[Big Boy]

I think it was yesterday's Daily Brief (maybe the day before) where the Thai Government have acknowledged the system is not fit for purpose. A new, bigger brother version will be in place by this weekend. The spokesman said it will not be possible to ignore it any more.

Thoughts..... obviously the Thai Government don't know their people.

[Nereus]

seems I followed somebody famous into the store, a Mr M Mouse.

Donald Trump had a pedicure yesterday, and he also has a new phone number.

[handdrummer]

The app is a warm-up and practice run for when facial recognition cameras are installed. Then, they will no longer need the app. Was it the Ojays who sang, Somebodies Watching You?

[Big Boy]

HaHa if somebody has nothing else to do than to watch my mundane life, I wish them the best of luck.

[hhinner]

I think it was yesterday's Daily Brief (maybe the day before) where the Thai Government have acknowledged the system is not fit for purpose. A new, bigger brother version will be in place by this weekend. The spokesman said it will not be possible to ignore it any more.

Thoughts..... obviously the Thai Government don't know their people.

There is now an app on play store. It's only in Thai though, provided by krungthai bank as the developer. It doesn't seem to do any more than the website, except you need to register your phone number. Just a bit easier than using a scanning app and linking through a URL.

[Governor]

I read that the Apple App will be available over the weekend, I also read that you can change the language.

[Nereus]

Govt denies phone tracking

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... e-tracking

The Ministry of Defence has denied requesting mobile phone location data from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to monitor the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand.

Defence Ministry spokesman, Lt Gen Kongcheep Tantravanich, said the ministry has no authority to demand private mobile phone information, shutting down reports that the ministry had asked mobile network operations to send in their customers' location data to assist with efforts to curb the spread of the disease.

However, the director of the Policy and Planning Office under the Ministry of Defence, Gen Raksak Rojphimphun, said instead that the NBTC and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society have been nominated to supervise the tracking of mobile phone users' movements. He also said his office has met with all five mobile network operators to discuss the possibility of using users' mobile phone data for disease-control purposes.

His comment came after independent academic Sarinee Achavanuntakul published a document from the defence policy and planning office, asking the NBTC to provide the mobile phone location data of newly confirmed Covid-19 patients over the last 14 days. According to Ms Sarinee's Facebook post, the office also asked for the mobile phone numbers of everyone near them.

Gen Raksak justified the need to track mobile phone users by citing the cluster of infections at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium. "If we had the mobile phone information of all 2,800 people at the stadium, we would have been able to send a text to warn them immediately," he said.

Addressing human rights concerns over location tracking, Gen Raksak said no data has been harvested as the programme is still in development. (or the "program" does not work!)

[Big Boy]

FFS, don't governments have more important things to do than know where every pleb is? I'll tell them where I am if they really want to know - I have absolutely nothing to hide. At the end of the day, it would require an IT system much greater than Thailand's IT dummies could even contemplate to manage the data. If they somehow managed to create such a monster, what are they going to do with all of that knowledge? How many have seen the paper mountain outside Immigration of all the paperwork we produce for them - there they make us jump through hoops but scrap the information? Why is everybody so paranoid?

Personally, I think people are crediting the Govermnent with intelligence. Last time I looked, there was no Bill Gates or Mark Elliot Zuckerberg sat in the Government.

[caller]

I'm in two minds about this.

There isn't a Country in the World that doesn't attempt to monitor those in their Countries who they perceive as a threat. However, in mostly democratic Countries, such monitoring is strictly controlled and isn't by and large used for political gain, nor against those who might simply be against the Government of the day.

Thailand isn't like that and the new to me revelation, that they were actually using telecom providers information to track people, allegedly covid19 patients, before the new app came into being, changes things for me, as this Government will use the data in any way they deem fit,

I'm going back to paper filling now.

[PeteC]

I've never had a Thai SIM in my name, always the wife's name. I guess now if we walk into a store together there will be two of her and blow up the system?

I don't think it's anything unusual as I used to have many foreign friends here who did the same thing.

[Big Boy]

I received my first, 'This shop is too busy' feedback earlier. I was going into AIS at Market Village, and there were no other customers. I guess too many customers had checked in before me, but hadn't checked out. I'm sorry dtaai-maai, I've said it many times before, and I'll probably say it again. This piece of shite is not fit for purpose. If taken literally, nobody goes into this shop ever again.

What is worse, I've worked out how to over-populate any store whilst sitting in my armchair. If I was unscrupulous, I could use the system to the adverse effect of many businesses.

[dtaai-maai]

I received my first, 'This shop is too busy' feedback earlier. I was going into AIS at Market Village, and there were no other customers. I guess too many customers had checked in before me, but hadn't checked out.

I'm having a 'what happened next' moment here. Is it just a message on your phone that you can completely ignore?

[nil]

Seeing how they don’t know how many people entered the shop by filling in the paper form it makes the warning even more than useless.

[PeteC]

What country has a good application/tracking system? Has anyone read about anything that stands out?

I really haven't paid attention to it outside of Thailand.

EDIT: China with their cradle to grave tracking doesn't count.