Immigration Office Recycling Paper

[Speedo1968]

Anyone had interesting reading on the back of their recent immigration documents that were handed back ?

 

Recently went to do my 90 day report and noticed the officers were using the blank side of copied document papers.

My next 90 day report due date slip was neatly folded and stapled in my passport.

I needed to remove the slip and there, for all to see, on the reverse was a full colour copy of someone else's passport.

The country in question does not seem to have a signature on the picture page as do those from the UK.

[userabcd]

As an aside, in the 80's and 90's there was talk bandied about that the computer would do away with a lot of the paper consumption, however if anything, paper consumption seems to have increased.

Edited June 20, 2019 by userabcd

[NanLaew]

A frequent subject here and one that gets some members in a froth about their personal information getting into the public domain but I think it's much ado about nothing.

[Maestro]

5 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

...Recently went to do my 90 day report and noticed the officers were using the blank side of copied document papers.

My next 90 day report due date slip was neatly folded and stapled in my passport.

I needed to remove the slip and there, for all to see, on the reverse was a full colour copy of someone else's passport...

 

I am trying to think of a Thai law forbidding this practice but nothing comes to my mind.

[Kwasaki]

6 hours ago, Speedo1968 said:

I needed to remove the slip and there, for all to see, on the reverse was a full colour copy of someone else's passport.

Someone ejected from Thailand.????

[DaRoadrunner]

The paper I have seen them 'recycling' is that folding stuff nomally found in your wallet. There was a huge pile of cash stacked up on a table in a back room.

[legend49]

10 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

I am trying to think of a Thai law forbidding this practice but nothing comes to my mind.

Thais are allowed to copy anything, only Chinese they harass on copies. LOL

[KiChakayan]

15 hours ago, userabcd said:

As an aside, in the 80's and 90's there was talk bandied about that the computer would do away with a lot of the paper consumption, however if anything, paper consumption seems to have increased.

As a matter of fact TI is struggling to keep up with the 60's..

[bert bloggs]

Same here ,i have some German guys deyails on the back of my 90 day slip.

[5633572526]

So all these copies of my passport that I am supplying every year is just so they don’t have to spend money on copier paper??

[jackdd]

We had threads about this before. Yes, happens ????

Does also happen in banks.

[CharlieH]

If concerned, next time you just strike through several times across the back and it's useless to be used again.  ????

[klauskunkel]

I was contacted recently via email by a Bangkok visa agent offering their services of a a hassle-free extension and "sponsorship of financial requirements".

I wondered how they knew:

1. my email address

2. that I had retirement extensions

3. my nationality

and then I stopped wondering...

 

[Speedo1968]

21 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

If concerned, next time you just strike through several times across the back and it's useless to be used again.  ????

Yes, I do strike through and write copy only, wherever copies of my details e.g. passport, are required.

[Speedo1968]

24 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

I was contacted recently via email by a Bangkok visa agent offering their services of a a hassle-free extension and "sponsorship of financial requirements".

I wondered how they knew:

1. my email address

2. that I had retirement extensions

3. my nationality

and then I stopped wondering...

 

"Support your local Immigration office / r"

Sometimes its who you know through who you know where help is available.

Having worked with a major company here and doing a 90 day on my work permit, the stacks of paper for me each time was ludicrous.

[connda]

Seems as though they have no policies about protecting personal data of foreigners against Identity Theft - but - we're 'just foreigners.'  Why would they care?

[connda]

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

I was contacted recently via email by a Bangkok visa agent offering their services of a a hassle-free extension and "sponsorship of financial requirements".

I wondered how they knew:

1. my email address

2. that I had retirement extensions

3. my nationality

and then I stopped wondering...

 

Occam's Razor - the more likely explanation is that someone is collating and selling your personal information from the back rooms of where you submitted your paperwork - which no doubt is illegal, but???  TIT.  

[HHTel]

14 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

I am trying to think of a Thai law forbidding this practice but nothing comes to my mind.

There is now, although only passed this year.  

 

The First Thailand Personal Data Protection Act Has Been Passed

https://globalcompliancenews.com/first-thailand-personal-data-protection-act-has-been-passed-20190401/

[Rally123]

They've been using used A4 paper, one side printed on, for years. There was someone that posted a few months back that immigration never returned to him any copies that he'd given to the officer surplus to requirement. He knows now where they went.

[whiteman]

Big brother is watching you amazing Thailand

[Maestro]

10 hours ago, HHTel said:

There is now, although only passed this year.  

 

https://globalcompliancenews.com/first-thailand-personal-data-protection-act-has-been-passed-20190401/

 

Thank you.

 

For anybody interested in Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562, it can can be viewed and downloaded here in Thai language:

http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2562/A/069/T_0115.PDF

 

I have not yet found an English translation of it.