The National Telecommunications Commission and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) recently held a Data Privacy Summit in Zamboanga City to raise the public’s knowledge of the Data Privacy Act. DICT Assistant Regional Director Guilbert Simene said the summit provided local government units, national...
The Information Security Officers Group (ISOG) announced this week that it will be holding its annual cybersecurity event in the Philippines this month of October. ISOG says that the event will be attended by IT executives, such as risk and compliance heads, InfoSec architects, CEOs, CISOs,...
The Philippine Statistics Authority said this week that it has already received a number of proposals from the private sector for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) IDs which it will be formally accepting within the week. National Statistician Lisa Grace S. Bersales revealed that the...
The Philippine Statistics Authority said this week that it is targeting to enroll 25 million Filipinos into the national ID system per year once the program gets fully rolled out next year. National Statistician and Civil Registrar General Dr. Lisa Grace Bersales said that the PhilSystem...
Assistant Secretary Allan Cabanlong of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) suggested last weekend Facebook should look into building data centers in the Philippines, given the number of users in the country which is one of the highest in the world. It was recently...