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So we are talking about the PDPA, that's the Personal Data Protection Act. Let me explain. I thought of making this video after receiving an email from a viewer. Quoting directly: "Big Tech has launched hidden camera glasses with integrated AI that does real-time facial recognition and continuous audio/video recording. These must be illegal in Thailand under the PDPA right?" - and they left me a link; he sends it over to meta.com - I will go ahead and put this stuff online; this photo, screenshot here - Quote: "Please make a YouTube video about this so the pushback can begin. Hopefully Thailand becomes the first country to explicitly ban these human surveillance drones who are spying for Western intelligence." Well I don't know who they are doing what for, but yeah, I find it problematic. I don't like this.

This 'death of privacy' stuff, it is really concerning. What really gets me is the nonchalance people have about it, especially, I have got to be honest, I don't mean to sound curmudgeonly, but it seems the younger generations, look there are 20-year-olds out there that basically don't remember the pre-smartphone era in any meaningful sense. There are definitely 15-year-olds out there that don't remember it, so they will be 20 in 5 more years. So yeah, and unfortunately I guess I see why they don't understand privacy to the extent that somebody who was born in the early '80s understands it, when I can remember the era before internet itself, cell phones and all. But privacy is a thing, and I don't want to see it go away either. 

That said, let's go over here to the PDPA. And this is actually from pdpathailand.com. What is it?  PDPA, Personal Data Protection Act 2019. “PDPA Thailand created this website to facilitate study and use. Personal Data Personal Protection Act B.E. 2562.” I urge those who are really interested in this, go check that out on your own; just do your own research. 

Long story short, I have done the videos in the past about intentionally videoing people without their permission; it is illegal in Thailand. I find it really rude too and on top of that, look, this place is fun and the adult sectors if you will, the entertainment zones primarily aimed at the adult clientele, it is becoming less fun, because of all the frankly I have got to be honest with you, just completely rude idiots walking around filming everybody. I don't want to be filmed on your phone, and I find it really weird that because it is now on a phone, people are somehow like allowed to do it. It used to be if you were caught, I remember the days in Patpong, sitting at the Old Madrid Tavern - which for those who know, the history of that place goes back a long way - and it is a perfectly respectable place. I really enjoyed Madrid. I think they were the first to bring pizza here. Madrid has a fabled history. I remember sitting around in Madrid Tavern and if people pulled out a camera trying to take photos of people without their permission, they got a talking to. People didn't like that. So can we just stop with this stuff with the phones to begin with, and now these glasses and things. By the way, there are laws in Thailand on it. It's out there, I have done the videos on that before. 

That said, thanks to the viewer who wrote this in; I think it is something to bring up. It is kind of a good data point in the ever-increasing progression toward this - I don't know what you want to call it - technocratic dystopia we are moving into. That said, I will certainly be keeping people updated on this channel as this situation evolves.