Asia
Thailand
Thailand's only in-force platform-governance instrument is the ETDA Royal Decree on Digital Platform Services, a notification/registration regime with limited terms-transparency, algorithm-criteria disclosure and (for designated large platforms) operational risk-assessment duties, but reach data is filed privately and child rules are only proposed.
Scored against the DSA
Each obligation the DSA imposes on very large platforms, and whether Thailand’s law requires the same. Cells cover DSA-style, user-protective transparency and accountability only.
- Required by law
- Partial / emerging
- No such obligation
- Undetermined
Transparency
Public ad libraryDSA Art. 39
No ad-library mandate.
Transparency reportsDSA Art. 15 / 24 / 42
Operators file annual notifications to ETDA (regulator filings), not published transparency reports.
Researcher data accessDSA Art. 40
No vetted-researcher data-access mandate.
Reach disclosureDSA Art. 24(2)
User/transaction totals are filed privately to ETDA, not publicly disclosed as in DSA Art. 24(2).
Accountability
Systemic risk assessmentDSA Art. 34–35
Royal Decree s.20 requires designated large platforms to conduct risk assessment and mitigation (marketplace notification in force Dec 2025); operational rather than expressly systemic.
Source ↗Independent auditDSA Art. 37
No independent audit mandate in the Royal Decree.
Algorithmic transparencyDSA Art. 27 / 38
The Royal Decree requires certain operators to disclose the key criteria of ranking/recommendation/ad-display algorithms in their terms, but no non-profiling/chronological-feed option.
Source ↗Regulator + penaltiesDSA Art. 49–52, 74
ETDA is the dedicated regulator; non-notification carries up to 1 year jail and/or a THB 100,000 fine plus suspension, but the cap is modest and registration-focused.
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Child protection
No profiling ads to minorsDSA Art. 26(3) / 28
No ban on targeted advertising to minors.
Age assuranceBeyond the DSA
No in-force age-assurance mandate; proposed in a DES under-14 social-media draft (consultation, possible Q3 2026).
Child-safety duty of careDSA Art. 28
No platform-specific child-safety duty in force; a platform-relevant overhaul is proposed in the draft Child Protection Act (May 2026).
On the horizon
What's being debated
Draft Digital Platform Economy Act (PEA)
A near-copy of the DSA's tiered intermediary classification (mere conduit / caching / hosting), VLOP designation, annual transparency reports, advertising labelling and a Digital Platform Economy Committee with revenue-based fines.
Latest: Released by ETDA for public consultation 15 Jan to 15 Feb 2025, expanding the in-force 2022 Digital Platform Services royal decree. source ↗
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