In Thailand, it has been revealed that the Thai police and the military bought the software for millions of dollars to secretly have the ability to monitor mobile phones and computers. The revelation came in connection with Wikileaks released over a million emails and documents between an Italian company and the military and police.
In the documents that WikiLeaks has come over and now the newspaper the Bangkok Post has noted, we read that the Thai police and the military during the years 2013 and 2014 purchased the software to be able to listen to the call by mobile phone, reading text messages sent, and the computers to read including e-mail and to copy the contents of hard drives.
The price to be paid software is almost six million. In the documents it says among other things that the military explicitly want to use the opportunity to eavesdrop on ordinary people’s mobile phones and computers to “support our operations and missions.”
The last known purchase of the software was done in December 2013 and, according to the documents approved by the then Supreme Commander Genaral Prayut Chan-O-Cha, now Prime Minister of Thailand after the military coup in May 2014.
Neither the Prime Minister or military spokesperson would comment on the findings but said that the government has the law on his side, because you have the right to intercept individuals, after a court decision if it is suspected plans of terrorist offenses or other activity that could harm the country. While revelation comes so keeping the Thai government to push through a new law that radically increases the authorities’ capacity to electronic monitoring.
The National människorättskommisionären in Thailand Niran Pitakwatchara says to the Bangkok Post of the revelations and the proposed law that “It is a violation of democratic principles, which the state has no right to threaten individual privacy”, and that it is an abuse of power. “
In documents WikiLeaks has published so use other than Thailand also Vietnam and Singapore the software to monitor their citizens.
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