Tracking

[Pravda]

Just finished watching news with GF and she told me both Thai and Foreigners will be subject to installing immigration app that will be able to track you where ever you go.... supposedly due to Corona virus. 

 

Anyone heard of this?

[ubonjoe]

I have not heard of it. Sounds like a rumor to me.

Edit: I think I may of read about the possibility of tracking people that are on self quarantine after entering from certain countries. It is possible it was just a mix up in reporting it.

[DrJack54]

Is that a joke. Have more than one phone.

[Pravda]

I heard it on the Nation TV Joe...  hardly a rumor mill 

[ubonjoe]

Just now, Pravda said:

I heard it on the Nation TV Joe...  hardly a rumor mill 

It may just be confusion. Did you read the edit I did of my post.

[stouricks]

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Is that a joke. Have more than one phone.

Or tell 'em you do not have one.

[Pravda]

Just now, ubonjoe said:

It may just be confusion. Did you read the edit I did of my post.

 

I googled and there is an article about this in other news sources, but they make it sound like it is voluntary. 

[rhodie]

I hope they are paying for my data. ????

 

[kralledr]

Lol and then...

 

Essy to fake gps pisitiin ^^

[Maestro]

2 hours ago, Pravda said:

Just finished watching news with GF and she told me both Thai and Foreigners will be subject to installing immigration app that will be able to track you where ever you go.... supposedly due to Corona virus. 

 

Anyone heard of this?

 

Apparently, the details are still being worked out for those who are being ordered to self-quarantine.

From https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3074712/coronavirus-thailand-suspends-visa-free-policy:

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The country’s Public Health Ministry said visitors were required to disclose their self-quarantine locations and contact details to the government, or face an initial fine of 20,000 baht (US$634) followed by a one-year jail term for repeated failure to comply.

“We are beginning the mandatory quarantine first with those who have health certificates from those countries,” Narumon said. “We think that with the health certificates requirement, their number would be controllable enough for the health ministry’s staff to check on them, either at the hotel or via an app.”

The confirmation comes after days of confusion about the quarantine requirement, with government agencies in Bangkok and Thai consulates overseas saying different things.

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[BritTim]

If they have basic information about your phone (and if you have a Thai SIM card they do) then they can track where your phone is any time it is powered on without any need for an App. Of course, the assumption that you are where your phone is may not be reliable.

[DrJack54]

47 minutes ago, BritTim said:

If they have basic information about your phone (and if you have a Thai SIM card they do) then they can track where your phone is any time it is powered on without any need for an App. Of course, the assumption that you are where your phone is may not be reliable.

Come on Tim. My cell does not even have a Sim. I do not use cell for calls. I use data and wifi.

Yes can be tracked with help from FBI.

This thread is a joke.

 

[topt]

13 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

My cell does not even have a Sim. I do not use cell for calls.

Whether a joke or not that is not true for the majority of people however.

[BritTim]

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Come on Tim. My cell does not even have a Sim. I do not use cell for calls. I use data and wifi.

Yes can be tracked with help from FBI.

This thread is a joke.

It is possible you could use WiFi on a phone that has never been registered with a SIM, but quite rare/ If you are using mobile data in Thailand, you are using a SIM card. Note that having the SIM card inserted is not necessary for the tracking. It is only necessary that the authorities have the basic phone details which in the vast majority of cases they have.

[jacko45k]

13 hours ago, Pravda said:

I heard it on the Nation TV Joe...  hardly a rumor mill 

Yes my neighbour mentioned this yesterday. 

[jackdd]

Probably related to this:

 

[Crossy]

7 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Probably related to this:

 

I agree, so let's continue in that thread.

 

This one closed.

 

EDIT If anyone has info that it is NOT the same App please let myself or any active Mod know by PM and we can re-open this thread.