The survey, conducted by social media management platform Hootsuite and social media agency We Are Social, also revealed that the user base of social media in the Philippines saw strong double digit growth in 2016.
The controversial case of five teen-aged girls of St. Theresa's College (STC) Cebu who uploaded photos of themselves in bikinis in Facebook set the rule on online self-regulation in the Philippines.
Over the weekend, Filipino online gamer Euneil ?Staz? Javinas bested a competitor from Sweden to emerge as champion at the inaugural World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) 2016 held in China.
The Supreme Court said that "restricting the privacy of one's posts to 'Friends Only' does not guarantee absolute protection from the prying eyes of another user who does not belong to his circle of friends." A user's friend could tag it to others not his friends.
Public and private organizations that gather and process personal information must now designate their own Data Protection Officers (DPOs), the National Privacy Commission (NPC) has warned.
Although it has agreed to reduce its surge pricing as requested by the government, ride-sharing app operator Uber Philippines has asked its partner drivers to write the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to make known of their opposition to the price cap.
Exercising its regulatory powers for the first time since accrediting the apps-based ride-sharing firms, the government has ordered Uber and Grab to impose a cap on their surge rates amid complaints from commuters that they have imposed exorbitant fare prices.
Pres. Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Dec. 22, ordered the closure of all online gaming firms, saying the country has no mechanism to regulate online gambling.
Filipinos can look forward to better government online services as the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) ?soft-launched? on Wednesday, Dec. 14, the National Government Portal (NGP).
