The journey of the Philippines towards having its own national ID system dates back to the 1970s, when then President Ferdinand Marcos...

'A group that stands to be affected negatively by a SIM card policy are journalists and their data-gathering practices' The Philippines...

Last January, I wrote here a list of items I felt deserved the attention of the National Privacy Commission (NPC), particularly in light...

The Supreme Court recently made public a decision it had handed down late last year wherein it held that photos and other content taken...

In 2018, I utilized this space to outline five essential points that argued strongly against the adoption of a SIM card registration...

In the middle of December last year, the National Privacy Commission (NPC), the country’s data protection authority, finally found itself...

The electoral process is a crucial pillar of any democratic country. It’s one of those things that sets a nation apart from peers that...

The implementation of the country’s national ID system is only now starting to gain momentum. This is because, despite the passage of its...

Do those who have passed on to the next life still get to enjoy privacy? It’s a question that has surfaced a couple of times this past...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerated efforts to produce a vaccine have now yielded results. Vaccines are now being distributed...

Last week, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Information Exchange posted on its Facebook page a list of “some of the UP students...

Last November 26, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases mandated the use of the Staysafe.ph...

Late last month, I gave a brief lecture on the country’s Data Privacy Act (DPA), juxtaposed with the law on mandatory reporting of...

The suggestion is wrong in so many ways, ill-conceived, shortsighted, and ultimately irresponsible. Here are a few reasons:

Enforcement has to be a key priority, too. Without it, what good are the policies for?

In other words, for public interest to justify the disclosure of prison records, a specific ground must still be identified.

Why is no one willing to be accountable for the government’s regulatory framework (if one can call it that)?

...locating and enforcing that critical boundary between work from home has become a priority for many.

Tying these two incidents together is the fact that the data collection in both cases is required by no less than the government.

The unreasonable delay in the release of COVID-19 test results for repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) has been in the news of...