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Philippines’ crackdown on anonymous SIM cards prompts backlash
Jamael Jacob, a lawyer who specialises in cyber law, said Uy’s suggestion that retailers could register users for a fee is dangerous ...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Marcos signs SIM Card Registration Act. Will it really stop scammers?
MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday, October 10, signed into law a measure requiring Filipinos to register...
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LIGHTS Institute
- May 22, 2022
- 1 min
Philippine privacy regulator gearing up to impose new fines despite challenges
“I personally can't wait for the fines to be imposed,” a data privacy officer for a listed Philippine company told MLex. The sentiment...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Feb 13, 2022
- 1 min
Doing Business in Myanmar Is Tough, but Norway’s Telenor Finds That Leaving Isn’t Much Easier
After last year’s military coup in Myanmar, the local subsidiary of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor ASA TELNY 0.51%...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min
Free online course on privacy and data protection launched
The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) on Wednesday, July 28, launched an online privacy course on its official website and YouTube...
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LIGHTS Institute
- May 12, 2021
- 1 min
Why loan apps are so popular in the Philippines… for better or worse
When things go wrong and money gets tight and we run out of people to ask for help from, advances in technology could save the day. And...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Apr 21, 2021
- 1 min
Despite ‘red-tagging,’ community pantries rise to 350, says advocate
Photo by Niño Jesus Orbeta MANILA, Philippines — The Maginhawa Community Pantry in Quezon City on Wednesday resumed its distribution of...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
NPC: Police have no blanket power to access data of persons in custody of gov’t agency
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has warned the Philippine National Police that it does not have unbridled access to the personal...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Feb 17, 2021
- 1 min
Christine Dacera film? Filipinos’ response is to let her ‘rest in peace’
Some Filipinos appealed for film producers to let deceased flight attendant Christine Dacera “rest in peace” following speculations that...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
Contact tracing apps: Public health vs data privacy
Contact tracing, together with testing and isolating COVID-19 patients, helps contain the spread of the virus, absent a vaccine. Digital...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Mar 22, 2020
- 1 min
Things to know before sharing others’ personal info amid coronavirus outbreak
MANILA, Philippines – Gabriel (not his real name) woke up one morning to a neighborhood chismis (gossip) painting him as a patient under...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Jun 22, 2019
- 1 min
Right to be forgotten
An individual may compel a search engine, like Google, to remove or delete links containing “inadequate, irrelevant… or excessive” data...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Jan 27, 2019
- 1 min
Big brother Huawei kitted out this Philippine city. Is China watching?
Photo from bgc.com.ph Huawei’s state of the art surveillance systems at the Philippines’ ‘Bonifacio Global City’ spark paranoia that a...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Jan 23, 2019
- 1 min
The DFA Mess and Data Privacy, Explained
Illustration by War Espejo Now that the dust has settled, it’s a good time to take stock of what happened with the Department of Foreign...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Dangerous data breach
Photo from Rappler The Senate should seriously consider the call by a data privacy expert to look into the possible data breach of files...
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LIGHTS Institute
- May 30, 2018
- 1 min
Philippine Congress ratifies national ID law
MANILA - Philippine lawmakers on Wednesday (May 30) ratified a proposed law creating a "national identification system", amid criticism...
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LIGHTS Institute
- May 28, 2018
- 1 min
Weighing the national ID system for Filipinos: The good, the bad and the ugly
Photo from Philippine News Agency The proposed national ID system may soon become a law, but many sectors are divided on whether the...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Mar 17, 2018
- 1 min
Prone to abuse: State surveillance as a tool to silence critics
MANILA, Philippines – State surveillance is not new to the Philippines. Administrations across history had engaged in this monitoring to...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Mar 15, 2018
- 1 min
State surveillance: A necessary evil?
MANILA, Philippines – In this year alone, authorities in the Philippines were able to arrest 3 individuals connected with the Islamic...
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LIGHTS Institute
- Mar 9, 2018
- 1 min
What you need to know about state surveillance
MANILA, Philippines – Could the government be watching you? With recent news of the United Kingdom selling spyware to the administration...
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