Rights chief warns police on 'chat' probes
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The chair of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has warned police to be cautious about its reported plan to examine the chat-application conversation histories of some suspects.
The Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) recently suggested that it will be looking into suspects’ online-chat history.
NHRC chairwoman Amara Pongsapich yesterday warned that such a move would be very much like tapping a telephone line to listen to a private conversation.
The examination of online-chat histories, she warned, carried risks of violating people’s rights.
The plan is reportedly linked to the TCSD’s summonses for four persons who posted online political comments deemed by police as a false statement that could have caused public panic and the hoarding of food and water.
Sermsuk Kasitpradit, who now works as Thai PBS’s political and security editor, is among the four summoned.
