Thai Cops Making Home Visits to Fill ‘Invasive’ Immigration Forms, Foreigners Say

In the most recent incident over the controversial immigration policy, three foreigners in Thailand complained of being visited by Thai police at their homes, and pressured to fill out immigrations forms that were accused of being “too personal”. (https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/09/thai-cops-making-home-visits-fill...)
Thailand’s Immigration Bureau has also asked foreigners living in the country to provide bank account numbers, information about social media use and places they visited often. This article from Khaoso in April gives more insight to the reasoning by the Thai government on such an action. (http://www.khaosodenglish.com/life/2016/04/18/1460977949/) They have justified this questioning on grounds of national security, citing that they will not look into the information unless proven necessary, and that all these measures are in place to maximize security against terrorism. A spokesperson then also assured that it wasn’t compulsory (which has changed now).
This article from Bangkok Post, (http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/work/943665/new-immigration-form-pri...) seems to be written for the audience of Thais, and necessary or not, explains that privacy is a bigger issue in the West than it is in the East. I find this assumption slightly problematic, but this is the only article that I could find that discussed the relevance of these forms to Thais.