The National Privacy Commission said the four online lending apps -- JuanHand, Pesopop, CashJeep, and Lemon Loan -- were engaged in “irrelevant, unnecessary, and excessive” harvesting of personal and sensitive information without borrowers’ free and informed consent.
The Land Bank of the Philippines reported on Tuesday, Aug. 24, a sustained increase in the usage of its major electronic banking channels, including payment systems used by national and local government agencies, in the first seven months of the year.
The Project Marayum language initiative seeks to produce an online language dictionary which can be modified by registered members of a specific community who mainly speak the language.
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said foreigners registered will soon be able to enter and exit the country with more ease with the upcoming integration of the agency’s automated travel control system at the ports with its database of issued alien certification of registration identity cards (ACR I-Cards).
Anak Kalusugan part-list representative Michael Defensor has filed a resolution seeking an investigation into Facebook’s censorship guidelines, saying the social media giant may be restraining free online expression.
Sen. Leila M. de Lima has filed a Senate resolution urging the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to fast-track the development of a national vaccine database of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as a standard measure to verify proof of inoculation.
A research expert said “the damage inflicted by fake news can be serious, and its ramifications far and wide, as news could travel more quickly on social media, especially sensational stories, which most disinformation producers invent in selling fake news.”
