Disini & Disini Law Office recently organized a half-day lecture on international competition law, a rapidly-emerging legal practice area following the enactment of the Philippine Competition Act. The lecture featured Geneva-based Dr. Pierre Horna, Legal Affairs Officer, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, United Nations Conference...
Last July 16, 2019, Disini & Disini Law Office and Digital Freedom Network held a whole-day data privacy symposium with over a hundred human resource officers and data privacy officers in attendance. Data Privacy Bootcamp for HR Professionals 2, held at Dusit Thani, Makati City,was...
Digital Freedom Network, Disini & Disini Law Office and Data Privacy Philippines are set to launch a day-long symposium this July designed to assist employers, human resource officers, and data protection officers in complying with the Data Privacy Act. Data Privacy Bootcamp for HR Professionals...
Digital Freedom Network, Disini & Disini Law Office, and Data Privacy Philippines, recently concluded a successful forum that enabled a diverse set of professionals with a greater understanding and appreciation of the Data Privacy Act of 2012. The whole-day forum, Navigating Compliance with the Data...
On 9 January 2018, Digitial Freedom Network hosted the first 2019 meeting of the Industry Association of Privacy Professionals Philippines KnowledgeNet. Atty. JJ Disini welcomed the participants held at the Disini & Disini Law Office; he and Atty. Mark Parcia of Disini Law took part...
In January 2019, Disini and Disini Law Office and Data Privacy Series launched a regular free Data Privacy Orientation series known as Data Privacy Act Free Basics. The series features members of the Disini Data Privacy Core team offering an hour-long orientation on the Data...
At the invitation of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Atty. JJ Disini and lawyers from Disini & Disini Law conducted a seminar on the Data Privacy Act and Data Security before key employees of the judiciary. Among those in attendance at the seminar last...
Just a few weeks after the promulgation by the Philippine Supreme Court of the Rule on Cybercrime Warrants, Disini & Disini Law Office and Digital Freedom Network organized a whole day workshop discussing the implications of the new rule in the investigation and litigation of...
The Disini & Disini Law Office and Digital Freedom Network successfully conducted a landmark one-day bootcamp on the Data Privacy Act designed specifically for HR professionals. “Data Privacy Bootcamp for HR Professionals” was held on 15 September 2018 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati...
I. Cryptocurrency Mining. The recent years have seen a huge boom in the use of cryptocurrencies driving their prices up and introducing people to a new investment opportunity. Among the means to obtain cryptocurrency is through mining. Mining is analogous to mining gold, there being...
If one goes into stores, there are multiple ways of paying one’s purchases. One could pay through traditional means, i.e., through cash, debit or credit card or through their electronic wallets, more commonly known as “e-wallet”, an electronic card which allows the user to pay...
The world has seen tremendous developments on artificial intelligence (AI).. From simple computing tasks, AI and Machine Learning (ML) has spawned several business applications such as cybersecurity defense, human resources, market prediction, accelerated reading, accounting, Fintech, and healthcare. AI-powered chatbots are ubiquitous in the tech...
Blockchain technology brings about certain challenges, particularly in terms of compliance with the Data Privacy Act (DPA). In a nutshell, the DPA mandates that individuals must have control over the use or removal of their data. In contrast, blockchain’s greatest feature is its unchangeable record...
It is no secret that the Philippine bureaucracy is inefficient. This is shown by the long line of driver’s license applicants in the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in East Avenue. Up to now, the LTO still employs personnel to manually input applicants’ personal details into...
Accessing Geolocation without a Search Warrant There have been reports on the police using the global positioning tracker (GPS) of stolen vehicles[1] or smartphones[2] to catch suspects. Last December 2015, the Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) had a breakthrough in the “rent-sangla” scheme...
What is AI and how is it created? Artificial intelligence is no longer a creation of science fiction. It now exists in everyday life, from stock market trading to facial recognition in social media. Artificial Intelligence has become a staple in everyday life even without...
The influx of global investments for financial technology (Fintech) in the past year reached an all time-high of 27.4 billion US dollars.[1] As a disruptive technology, Fintech forced many businesses to study ways to adapt to this highly innovative industry. As with any kind of...
In the midst of growing data breaches affecting a wide array of industries and applications, it has been increasingly necessary to safeguard personal data collection and processing through more stringent policies. The latest General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU requires companies which handle...
Data breach notification under the Data Privacy Act Tweet Share Share By Disini & Disini Law Office on April 22, 2017 in Banking and Finance, Data Privacy The past few years have seen robust developments in the field of data protection, spawned no doubt by the sheer scale of the problem on data breaches. The bad news, however, is that data breaches remain as pervasive as ever. If even the seemingly impenetrable Pentagon is vulnerable to cyber-attacks, it is difficult to imagine the measure of security an ordinary user would need to employ in order to adequately ward off these kinds of attacks.
Held last October 11, 2017, “Countdown to Data Privacy focused on educating various institutions on the core and critical issues in complying with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA), including the role of information security in the compliance process, the best practices for breach management, the impact of the DPA on certain industries and the proper application as provided by law. Organized by Disini Law Office, eLegal and Data Privacy Philippines, this symposium featured the expertise of National Privacy Commission Raymund Liboro, NPC Deputy Commissioners Ivy Patdu and Francis Acero, ECC International Technical Director Kamesh Ganeson and the Disini Data Privacy Core Team lead by Atty. Jj Disini.
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