Thai Airways International, which serves a large number of EU passengers, is subject to the data protection law. Paiboon Amonpinyokeat, a cyber-legal expert, said enforcement of the EU data protection law would have a significant impact on Thailand as far as EU citizens’ data is concerned. As a result, Thailand needs to enact its own data protection law so as to avoid problems with the EU, he said. Also, the EU law includes the “right to be forgotten”, and so Thai authorities must be able to comply with this requirement. Arthit Suriyawongkul, coordinator of Thai Netizen, said standards in the Thai data protection law are likely to be lower than those required under EU law.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 24, 2018 18:00 UTC