The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it is recommending that Internet users change the passwords of their email and social media accounts as part of their new year?s resolutions.
Raymond Liboro, assistant secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has been appointed by Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as the first commissioner of the newly created National Privacy Commission (NPC).
The Data Privacy Law, which was approved in August 2012 and hailed by the local ICT industry as a landmark legislation, has yet to take effect since the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) has yet to be drafted and issued by the government.