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DSI accepts iris-scanning case
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/12/2025
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is preparing to investigate complaints about an iris-scanning cryptocurrency project in Thailand.
PDPC tells firm to halt iris scan service
News, KOMSAN TORTERMVASANA and SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK, Published on 25/11/2025
» The Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) has ordered TIDC Worldverse to suspend its iris scan verification services in Thailand after it was found to be offering cryptocurrency in exchange for personal data.
Iris scanning sparks debate
News, Published on 22/09/2025
» Iris scanning has raised legal and ethical concerns over personal data protection as authorities call for greater transparency in delivering the service.
Warning issued about biometric data gathering
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/08/2025
» The Department of Provincial Administration has issued a nationwide alert urging local officials to monitor iris-scanning activities taking place in shopping malls across the country.
Thailand, China set for 'Golden Jubilee'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 20/11/2024
» Thailand and China have launched a logo for the golden jubilee marking 50 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations next year.
Reflecting on a century of Fascism
News, Jason Stanley, Published on 07/11/2022
» When Fascist Blackshirts marched through the streets of Rome at the end of October 1922, their leader, Benito Mussolini, had just been installed as prime minister.
Israel heads to yet another poll in just 3.5 years
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/10/2022
» Israeli voters are indefatigable. The election on Nov 1 will be the fifth in just three-and-a-half years, and yet the turnout is still likely to be around 70%. That's especially remarkable because all five elections have really been about the same question: should Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu go to jail, or should he be prime minister?
3 steps forward, but 2.5 back for populism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/10/2022
» The reports about Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva's impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before the vote on Oct 2. He was after all, fourteen points ahead of his populist rival, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro, in the last opinion poll before the vote.
Queen Elizabeth II to be interred privately Monday
News, Angus MacSwan and Farouq Suleiman, Published on 16/09/2022
» LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II will be interred at a private ceremony at Windsor Castle after her state funeral next week, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
Europe on brink of revolution as elections loom
News, George Soros, Published on 14/02/2019
» Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don't, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment, that the range of possibilities is very broad, and that the eventual outcome is thus highly uncertain.