From Bangkok Post

 

All mobile users must participate in the online fingerprint ID system for new prepaid and postpaid mobile SIM card registration, or they will not be allowed to use mobile service.

 

The automated fingerprint registration system, implemented by the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), is set to start from Jan 1, 2018, said secretary-general Takorn Tantasith.

 

The regulator unveiled the first fingerprint ID machine to the media Thursday, with a plan to launch the first batch of 30 machines on May 31.

 

Through a fingerprint enrolment process, mobile operators will scan each person's fingerprints, which will stored on the national ID card database and the NBTC's secure database.

 

Those who failed to comply with the rule face a mobile signal cut-off.
 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1256574/fingerprinting-for-sims-made-mandatory

I think they tried to get this up and running earlier this year. It will be interesting to see if all the 7elevens and small stalls in MBK etc pay for a fingerprint reader at 8000B.

 

Interesting that they are starting the roll-out in the troubled Southern Provinces. Previously they have said the implementation was related to bank fraud, this article clearly mentions bombs being detonated by mobile phones

Many countries these days would use finger printing on entry with passports. That being the case this shouldn't be necessary. 

Next thing you know, they will require you to look into the Camera so they can scan your Iris

before you can make a Date...

BIG BROTHER IS HERE!!!

Many countries these days would use finger printing on entry with passports. That being the case this shouldn't be necessary.

 

I think in this particular case they are more worried about their own citizens than about foreigners. They mention potential bombers in the South, but I guess what they are really after are dissidents (opponents to military rule and those accused of defaming the highest institution).

I think in this particular case they are more worried about their own citizens than about foreigners. They mention potential bombers in the South

 

 in the last bombing in the deep south the perpetrators stopped a pickup van on the road, killed the driver and stole the van that they then  planted the bomb in - one wonders why the authorities think the perpetrators could not also steal a mobile phone and SIM to use to set off the bomb

 

but of course we all trust the authorities to keep these fingerprint databases secure and not use them for other more nefarious purposes so it is no problem that this is just the usual security theater to look like they are doing something useful when they are not!

 

bkkguy

Happy that my visit to BKK is scheduled for November 2017.

I will keep my Finger Print to myself...