Saying the Supreme Court has committed an error in upholding online libel under the Cybercrime Law, Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago has urged Congress to pass a bill that protects online service providers from liability for posts made by users.
Technology titan IBM is now putting the finishing touches on a multi-million disaster mitigation center that it will turn over to the Philippine government via the Information and Communications Technology Office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The Supreme Court may have just given the go-signal to the Cybercrime Law, but enforcing it against violations is an entirely different matter. According to the National Bureau of Investigation, the country?s criminal justice system is just ?too jurassic? to combat cybercrime.
The committee chaired by Rizal representative Joel Roy Duavit approved the unnumbered substitute bill that aims to protect and promote the right of consumers to privacy and protect them from unwanted calls and text messages inducing purchase of goods and services, and solicitations.
The Philippines has earned a new mark in the field of ICT with the latest roll-out of the government's pilot sites for TV White Space (TVWS) technology, now tagged as the most extensive in the region.
A couple of days after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of online libel as provided for under the Cybercrime Law, three more senators have filed proposals to remove the penalty of imprisonment in libel cases.
As netizens weighed in on the landmark decision of the Supreme Court on the Cybercrime Law, the government has given its stamp of approval on the controversial legislation, saying new crimes such as Internet libel and cybersex should be penalized as well.
A survey conducted by software maker Microsoft among its 2,017 partners in 11 countries in Asia Pacific showed that those in the Philippines are most worried on the lack of privacy when using the cloud. Also included in the top five of their concerns on the cloud are: that it is not secure, has no ownership, less productive, and not yet mature.
VMware Philippines country manager Emmanuel Portugal also shared the results of the latest VMware Cloud Index, which showed that cloud adoption in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region continues to progress and accelerate business transformation.
