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Thailand is rapidly adopting tools of technocracy, including the introduction of a “robocop” with advanced AI to detect and prevent crime, and a “safety” hub of CCTV cameras with AI video analytics and facial recognition tracking.

The use of digital payments via QR code scanning and one-time passwords (“OTP”) is becoming widespread, with OTP codes serving as a form of digital ID by stealth, connecting a person’s identity to their phone number.

The Thai government is implementing biometric systems, including facial recognition and iris scanning, to track and manage migrant workers, and a new SIM card registration system using liveness detection technology is being introduced to prevent malicious registrations.

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Technocratic Thailand Roundup

By Nicholas Creed, 30 April 2025

I will preface this roundup by reminding readers that the overwhelming majority of Bangkok’s visible population are walking around like zombies, staring at their phones. In the parks, most people just want to find a quiet spot in beautiful nature – to spend quality time with their phones. It is getting more difficult to use cash as vendors rarely have change. People love to pay for things using their phones via QR code scanning with banking apps. Bangkok is ground zero for all things technocratic to be battle-tested. There is no resistance. There shall be no resistance. The people love digitaltopia. The populace is fully primed for a fully functioning technocratic society.

I would love to be proven wrong.

Meet Robocop aka “Colonel Safety”

I was surprised to learn about Thailand’s first friendly neighbourhood terminator protégé via Zerohedge, rather than in local news – which was reported after the fact.

Via Zerohedge:

Ah, of course, most official announcements are made on anti-social media platforms these days! That’s why I was kept in the dark.

Related: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state, Bangkok Post, 6 October 2021

Facial Recognition, Tracking People and Identifying Suspects

Before the Thai New Year “Songkran” festival, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (“BMA”) announced setting up a “safety” hub of CCTV cameras, using AI video analytics and facial recognition tracking. I suppose doing it for our safety plays better as a trial balloon in gauging public perception, as opposed to announcing they are setting up a panopticon surveillance grid infrastructure contributing towards a dystopian smart city, whereby everyone is assigned a social credit score.

BMA sets up Songkran safety hub Bangkok Post 12 April 2025

In the above Bangkok Post article, the truth was buried in textbook fashion halfway through the piece (emphasis added):

For your safety.

Phone Users Asked To Adjust Registration Data Accordingly

If you live in Bangkok, you will have noticed that one-time passwords (“OTP”) have been slowly incorporated into just about everything, from food and water delivery services to banking confirmations using a debit or credit card for an online payment. It is the evolution of those pesky captcha phrase click boxes. It wasto “prove you are not a bot.” OTP codes are six-digit numerical codes which are sent to a person’s mobile number by text message, which they then input to approve a payment online or log in to an app or website, etc.

Now, a new catchy phrase has been launched – “proof of personhood.” OTP codes sent to your mobile phone are a digital ID by stealth because your identity is connected to your phone number. This becomes a mandatory registration prerequisite for not only telecoms providers but also banking apps.

Checks underway on 700000 Thai mobile phone numbers of foreignersBangkok Post 27 April 2025NoteI love how two employees are masked up here they are heroes Stay safe

The deadline is today! Long gone are the days when one could rock up to a 711, buy a SIM card for 50 baht, and be good to go. No, no, no, no. The 711 stores now have cameras mounted on the cashiers, snap the SIM card buyer’s face, then scan their ID card. Now the government is cracking down on existing SIM cards. No getting grandfathered in on this one, I’m afraid.

For your safety.

Commenters on the above Bangkok Post article do not seem thrilled:

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#SimGate has taken another twist, in that “biometric SIM registration” has been approved …

Biometric SIM registration approved Bangkok Post 20 February 2025

Ah, I see, it’s also for our safety, how about that?! I assume that “liveness detection” will involve people moving their heads from side to side for the camera, whilst their facial templates are captured and stored in an interoperable database that is super, super secure.

People here are always taking selfies and dancing on their own with tripod-mounted phone holders to make their TikTok videos, so I imagine that liveness detection posing will be a breeze and embraced by all with a smile.

Biometric ID Management into the Public Health Ecosystem

In our final story of this technocratic roundup, we find another bogeyman in the form of those nuisance migrants [sarcasm]. In the interests of public health … you know the drill.

What’s there not to love about “face and iris biometric system to tighten control of migrants?

Come on guys, please sympathise that it is “difficult for the government to keep track of them, including for purposes of disease control.

I sure hope they don’t leave the other foreigners out. Maybe people will be able to post pictures on their Fakebook profiles after they get their irises and faces scanned, with a cheesy smile and a big thumbs up, along with the caption: “I got vaccinated scanned. 😃👁👨‍💻”

Let’s zoom out and run down all the technocratic developments in this post and my previous posts on this subject:

  • Central bank digital currency launch imminent.
  • Digital wallet stimulus trialled as a precursor to universal basic income.
  • Digital ID by stealth using mobile phone registration.
  • Biometrics capture for SIM card registration and mobile banking.
  • Digital arrival cards from 1st May with “vaccines” approved by the World Health Organisation and the Thailand Ministry of Public Health to be stipulated in order to enter the country.
  • Biometrics incorporated into the public health system for tracking and other implications in the event of another “pandemic.”
  • Command centre set up with hundreds of additional CCTV cameras installed, equipped with AI video analytics to assist in facial recognition, tracking individuals and identifying suspects.

It is almost as if we have the rumblings of a two-tier society coming into fruition, with a new underclass

About the Author

Nicholas Creed is a writer based in Bangkok.    You can follow him on his Substack page ‘Creed SpeechHERE.

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charlie
charlie
3 months ago

I have lived in rural Thailand for 20 years. It’s not Bangkok. The traditional Thai culture is very much alive. And is emphasized in schools. It is under attack though. Pride month, abortion legal up to 5 months, I can use cash everywhere I shop, although I use QR code payment as well. Sad that most people bought into the scamdemic. The trumpkillshotneedlerape was always a classic case of ‘over my dead body’. Cheers.

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Reply to  charlie
3 months ago

Humans are basically lazy and their laziness ensures their failure as a species. How hard is it to pay with cash? Think what would happen if animals could just use QR codes to get food. They would stop hunting and they would get lazy, fat and dumb.

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ChrisW
ChrisW
3 months ago

IMHO, The reason they let crime run rampant and say there’s misinformation and negative posts on the internet, is to put in MORE surveillance. But it’s always for the ‘greater good’. 🙄 Gun control, climate control, chemical control, food control, health and vax control, (always for you, never for corporations and pharma), always for the ‘greater good’.

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
Reply to  ChrisW
3 months ago

Hi ChrisW,
Having taken away our rights in the UK to own guns.
Now they are running a frightener, to stop people having cross bows and bolts.
They do not want us to be able to protect ourselves.
They are already closing all local police stations, so we cannot report crime.

raj patel
raj patel
Reply to  Dave Owen
3 months ago

i tried to report a crime to a police officer but he refused as he was too busy….and his colleagues were at the police station monitoring online harms – his words.