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Thailand to spend 3.8 million USD on social network monitoring

Thailand will spend 128.5 million THB (3.8 million USD) acquiring software to strengthen the government’s ability to monitor social networks, a move that sparked protests from activists and opposition parties.
Thailand to spend 3.8 million USD on social network monitoring ảnh 1Thailand to spend 3.8 million USD on social network monitoring. (Photo: Al Jazeera)

Bangkok (VNA) – Thailand will spend128.5 million THB (3.8 million USD) acquiring software to strengthen thegovernment’s ability to monitor social networks, a move that sparked protests fromactivists and opposition parties.

The country’s media reported on June 26 thatthe Thai Digital Economy Ministry is planning to install a social network dataanalysis system tracking million of internet users.

The Government of Thailand will soon post atender for the software and then consider offers.

The government has arrested many people onsuspicion of publicising posts on Facebook and other social media platformsdeemed to defame the royal family and the military government since a coup inMay 2014. It asked Facebook to block some 300 posts from users in Thailand inthe first half of 2017.

The Thai government is also pushing acyber-security bill that gives authorities power to order anyone to hand overinformation and communication devices, including phones and computers, in“emergency cases”, without court approval while internet access providers mustalso remove or block “sensitive” contents or websites if requested.-VNA
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