Big Brother Says Hi: Do You Have More or Less Privacy in Thailand Than at Home? [Season 4, Episode 31]

Greg and Ed tackle the complex question of privacy in
Thailand, especially as it compares to privacy back home. But
there are lots of types of privacy,
so what do we mean?


Firstly, as an expat, you live in a kind of bubble of
privacy anyway - often left alone and largely cut off from the
Thai-language media, which only increases the sense of privacy.
Second, Thai culture is famously indirect, with Thais tending to
be less confrontational about a person's private life, so from a
social and cultural perspective, you might say there is more
privacy here. BUT! But...Ed contends that, from a legal
perspective, there is overall less privacy in Thailand. Does it
balance out?


Greg - a noted non-lawyer - agrees to some extent, but says
that while Thais may be indirect, they also love to gossip (just
ask his neighbors). All of this on top of the fact that the Thai
gov't can pretty much access whatever it wants and has used the
pandemic to increase the stickiness of its fingers, means Greg
thinks that we all need to be careful about what, when, and to
whom we say anything.


Listen in as we go into detail on all of the above.


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