Gay Dating App Grindr in Trouble for Sharing Users HIV Status

April 11, 2018

Grindr CEO Scott Chen, replied to backlash about sharing users’ private data with other companies as standard “industry practice”. He also mentions that measures were taken to protect users’ privacy and that sharing the data with partners Apptimize and Localytics was merely to test the performance of the app. Researchers have voiced their concern that […]

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Bangkok’s Newest Business Venture: Dog Cafés

April 9, 2018

Animal cafés seem to be popping up all over the metropolitan city. Thai Law Forum visited a recently expanded dog café that moved from Lad Prao to downtown Ratchadapisek road due to its rapid success with tourists and locals. However, this wasn’t any ordinary dog café, the Big Dog Café owned by Khun Bird and […]

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Wyoming Challenges Federal Money Reserve and Legally Defines Crypto Tokens

April 9, 2018

Wyoming has become not only the first state in the US but the first elected body in the world to recognize crypto tokens as a new type of asset class that isn’t a commodity or security, says Rachel Wolfson from Forbes. Recognizing the “utility tokens” as a form of property will be under the bounds […]

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Thai Government Gambling Crackdown Bans Connect Four Bar Game

April 3, 2018

Reports from an undercover policeman in Pattaya tell of illegal gambling activities using the bar game “connect four”. The game is now banned due to its alleged connections with the “foreign mafia”. Another bar game on the Junta’s list of illegal activities is jenga. The crackdown on gambling follows attempts to license a commonplace bar […]

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Bangkok Café Adds Plastic Waste Reduction Initiative

March 28, 2018

The Better Moon grocery store and café is located near the On Nut BTS. Here, you will be able to find a café with locally sourced ingredients, meeting/workshop rooms, eco-friendly workshops/discussions and its main latest attraction, a refill station. Current legal issues are discussed in the Thailand Family Law Center by Thailand family lawyers.  The refill […]

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Proposed Regulations May Protect Facebook

March 27, 2018

Post election interference scandal and Cambridge Analytica Debacle, congress has called for stricter regulations on Facebook. For example, stronger privacy data regulations and ads transparency reporting, this could cost Facebook a lot of money and make it harder for them to develop new products. Expert Thailand divorce attorneys have successfully litigated hundreds of local and […]

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Thai Government Begins Drafts on Regulating Cryptocurrency

March 27, 2018

On March 13th, the Thai government announced drafts of two laws regarding digital assets. The Finance Ministry uses “digital assets” as the umbrella terms for digital coins and cryptocurrencies. The first draft plans to regulate digital asset transactions and the second draft plans to place tax levies on digital assets. The Hague Convention on Child […]

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Animal Activist Group Pairs Graffiti Artists with Business Owners

March 23, 2018

Thai animal advocacy group “A Call for Animal Rights” has launched a Facebook group that will help pair anyone wanting to paint murals of the recently poached Black Panther with walls of business owners willing to open up their properties. The creation of the group comes in response to authorities painting over Black Panther murals […]

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1999 Foreign Business Act Update after 3 Year Hiatus

March 23, 2018

The Business Development Department announced on Tuesday, plans to improve the law regarding foreigners in the 1999 Foreign Business Act. A similar announcement was made three years ago. However, foreign companies in Thailand had opposed the “improvements”, as they would keep foreigners from controlling Thai companies, says the Business Development Department director-general. The proposed amendments […]

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German Researchers Find Child Pornography in Blockchain

March 23, 2018

The possession and distribution of child pornography is currently illegal in over 100 countries. When researchers found links and images to sexually explicit content of underage persons it posed a threat to the multibillion dollar Bitcoin industry. The “blocks” of the blockchain, store records of transactions, small notes and files. When a blockchain was investigated […]

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