The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said this week that it is looking into Cebuana Lhuiller’s recent data breach which is estimated to have affected around 900,000 customers. The pawnshop and remittance company said that they detected the breach just last weekend from an email server containing...
The Department of Foreign Affairs officially said this week that all passport data are safe and in the control and custody of the agency. Assuring the National Privacy Commission, the DFA said that it is extremely seriously about the protection of the personal information of the...
At the recently held Panopticon 2019 data privacy conference, a number of data privacy experts reminded the public to increase their awareness on their privacy rights. Frederick Goddard of the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute Foundation said that educating the educators would be the best way to...
Earlier this week, PNP spokesperson Chief Superintendent Benigno Durana Jr. said that they were within their mandate when they gathered intelligence on ACT members as they were perceived to be allies of organizations considered to be “enemies of the state”. Durana was reportedly referring to a...
The Department of Foreign Affairs released an official statement this week on the recent breach involving the data of Filipino passport holders and said that only a Senate inquiry can give the public the assurance that the data had not been leaked or lost. The DFA...
DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said this week that they have not heard of any leaks yet in relation to the passport data that had allegedly been breached. Locsin said that there is a possibility that the data is already hopelessly corrupted and inaccessible. He...
The Commission on Human Rights reminded this week that the right to privacy is under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called on the government to identify accountabilities and determine penalties under the law to preserve the rights of those affected. CHR spokesperson Jacqueline...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon and senators Bam Aquino, Koko Pimentel, Risa Hontiveros and Panfilo Lacson called for an investigation into the reported breach of passport data at the Department of Foreign Affairs. It was revealed last week on Twitter by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin...
NPC official Atty. Francis Acero warned the public this week not to post the personal information of anyone they are not sure about for the purposes of vigilante action. He additionally warned that the NPC will be watching closely and a CTTO (credits to the owner)...
Senator Leila De Lima filed last week a resolution seeking a Senate investigation into the pregnancy test requirement being imposed by Baguio’s Pines City Colleges. De Lima called the school policy a discriminatory act in Senate Resolution No. 967, and said that it deprives girls and...