Sen. Panfilo Lacson introduced an amendment to Senate Bill 1636, the proposed Lifetime Cellphone Number Act, seeking to remove the interconnectivity fee or charge imposed by telcos on mobile phone subscribers for domestic calls and SMS (text) messages.
The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime aims to address the threats posed by cybercrime and facilitates multilateral cooperation and enhanced collective capability to suppress cybercrime.
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has appointed young lawyer Leandro Angelo "Dino" Aguirre as the new deputy commissioner at the National Privacy Commission (NPC).
The House committee on science and technology has approved a substitute bill which seeks to strengthen Republic Act 8439, otherwise known as the ?Magna Carta for Scientists, Engineers, Researchers and Other Science and Technology Personnel in the Government.?
During the 14th impeachment meeting of the House committee on justice tackled the hiring of Helen Macasaet as an IT consultant to improve the SC?s Enterprise Information Systems Plan (EISP).
In filing Senate Resolution (SR) No. 603, Sen. Leila De Lima also expressed serious concern over Pres. Rodrigo Duterte's apparent partiality to pick a telecommunications (telco) firm from China as the country's third telecommunications carrier.
Google News Lab recently hosted an event in its Google Philippines office to tackle the rise of technology and the challenges it presents to traditional news organizations and reporters.
