
From Thairath, June 11, 2020
Title: Co-opting COVID-19… to ‘abduct’ #save people’s mobile phone
On left: #SAVE Sgt Arm #SAVE Wanchalearm
On Covid virus: Ask for the location. Mobile. People.
Phi Nooring: Violate rights and freedom
Mouse: Use for threatening
On mobile’s screen: Freedom
[Thailand has principally used contract tracing to control the spread of covid-19. This has included the requirement that people use an app to check into and report their location.
Particularly after the abduction of dissident Wanchalearm in Cambodia, anti-government groups have accused the government of accessing people’s mobile phone data to track and destroy the opposition.]