The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has found three online lending firms -- Fast Cash Global Lending, Unipeso Lending Company, and Fynamics Lending -- liable for violations of the Data Privacy Act.
Newly appointed DICT assistant secretary Felino Castro V said that while average data connection in the country is at 4 Mbps, the agency is already working on installing free Wi-Fi in public areas across the Philippines that would offer a data connection of at least 10 Mbps.
Felino O. Castro V was designated as assistant secretary for the National Broadband Plan Backbone and Free Wi-Fi Internet Access in Public Places by DICT secretary Gregorio Honasan through Department Order No. 008 signed last July 19, 2019.
The two projects are “IntElect” which is basically a fleet of electric tricycles and the “UP Bike Share” which is said to be “a fourth-generation bike-sharing system that is monitored through a wireless tracking sensor.”
The Asean took a major step in harmonizing regional data protection, privacy regulations, and initiatives by launching the first Asean Data Protection and Privacy Forum in Bangkok, Thailand with the Philippines at the helm.
The European Union has urged the Philippine electronics industry to review its existing circular economy principles and practices after finding that some 80% of the pollution and 90% of the manufacturing costs are the result of decisions made at the product design stage.
This is despite the fact that the Philippine Space Agency will be placed under the administrative supervision of the Office of the President (OP) and not as an attached unit of the DOST as originally intended.
