At the opening ceremony of last year’s Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, an extraordinary (albeit pre-recorded) light show...

Photo from bgc.com.ph Huawei’s state of the art surveillance systems at the Philippines’ ‘Bonifacio Global City’ spark paranoia that a...

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...

Under the country’s data privacy law, the malicious disclosure of personal data is considered a crime. It is committed when an individual...

Civil society organizations are just as accountable as government agencies and businesses when it comes to data protection. Should there...

Photo from Rappler The Senate should seriously consider the call by a data privacy expert to look into the possible data breach of files...

Photo from Freepik And so it has come to pass that the country will have its own national ID system, with President Duterte signing the...

Resilience is certainly one of the qualities of a good PMP. But it should not be the main benchmark.

Freedom of Information (FOI), also called the “right to information”, is a fundamental human right enshrined in many international...

Today, it has many practical applications that affect nearly everyone, even if most people are probably unaware of it.

A couple of weeks from now, a little-known deadline is set to expire. On July 2, individuals that collect and use personal data as...

MANILA - Philippine lawmakers on Wednesday (May 30) ratified a proposed law creating a "national identification system", amid criticism...

Photo from Philippine News Agency The proposed national ID system may soon become a law, but many sectors are divided on whether the...

Personal data of 55 million Filipino voters exposed! 55M people at risk! PH suffers biggest breach involving government-held data!

In the wake of this Cambridge Analytica affair, we are once again confronted with the reality of just how much information we leak to the...

Have you ever wondered what your pornstar name would be like? How about your celebrity look-a-like? Do you know who among your friends is...

MANILA, Philippines – State surveillance is not new to the Philippines. Administrations across history had engaged in this monitoring to...

MANILA, Philippines – In this year alone, authorities in the Philippines were able to arrest 3 individuals connected with the Islamic...

Last week, I took part in this side event at the Human Rights Council’s 37th ordinary session called, “Digital identity, smart cities,...

MANILA, Philippines – Could the government be watching you? With recent news of the United Kingdom selling spyware to the administration...