The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the digitalization of the civil registry system through tablet-based mode data collection has resulted in a 100-percent accuracy of data collection and timely release of survey results as it eliminated the manual data encoding.
Agusan del Norte representative Lawrence Fortun said in a statement that the Manila Bulletin report was apparently erroneous as “[i]t appears now the alleged hacked files do not exist.”
In filing Senate Resolution No. 961, re-electionist senator Sherwin Gatchalian sought to direct the appropriate committee to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, with the end goal of strengthening the legal framework to enhance the enforcement of Data Privacy Act, Cybercrime Prevention Act, New Central Bank Act, and other related laws.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has also reminded banks and e-wallet providers to enhance their surveillance and monitoring measures to deter digital vote-buying and selling schemes in relation to the upcoming elections in May 2022.
New privacy commissioner John Henry Naga said the National Privacy Commission (NPC) is investigating whether BDO’s aging IT system had sufficient technical, organizational, and physical safeguards in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of personal information.
National Privacy Commission (NPC) deputy commissioner John Henry Naga has been appointed as the new chair of the data privacy agency while Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) undersecretary Emmanuel “Manny” Caintic has been designated as the acting secretary at the ICT agency, a highly-placed source told Newsbytes.PH.
The National Privacy Commission said the mandatory SIM card registration will only succeed under a framework of guaranteed privacy protection for mobile users.
The government has also formed an inter-agency group to receive complaints from cellular phone subscribers and will be tasked with forwarding the numbers used by scammers to telcos for blocking.
The breach incident has made the rounds online after social media personality Christian Albert “Xian” Gaza disclosed information on the ransomware attack in a number of posts in his Facebook page.
