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.
The unveiling was made to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose Rizal -- the reason why the 3D statue is also 12.5 feet in height.
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.
Aside from the mandatory SIM card registration, Senate Bill 2395 also mandates social media account providers to require users to register their real names and phone numbers before the creation of their social media accounts.
The monument was 3D-printed at the state-of-the-art Advanced Manufacturing Center of the DOST’s Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC).
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Civil society groups, however, have opposed the proposed legislation as a knee-jerk reaction that could also create a bigger security problem once the database of SIM cards is breached.
