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State surveillance of telecommunication data is argued to be necessary for lawful purpose such as national security and law enforcement On the contrary, such practice affected the right to privacy of individual. This paper explores the legal protection of telecommunication privacy in case of surveillance conducted by state agent. The scope of this paper includes the comparative study of the U.S. and Thai telecommunication privacy laws by using content analysis method. The results indicated that Thai constitution, compared to the U.S. constitution, protects privacy in the context of telecommunication data.