Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed lawyer Juan Paolo “John” Fajardo as deputy commissioner of the National Privacy Commission (NPC), replacing fellow lawyer Nerissa de Jesus whose term of office has expired.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it is reviewing the “Buo ang Saya ng Pasko” Christmas campaign of Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) on the messaging platform Viber following media reports and user complaints over the appearance of branded content in private chats.
Prior to his appointment, lawyer Johann Carlos S. Barcena served as executive director at the Office of the Commissioner under the Governance Commission for Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GCG).
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has officially concluded that no data breach occurred in the systems of G-Xchange Inc. (GXI), the operator of GCash, following a thorough technical investigation into reports of a massive data leak allegedly involving millions of user accounts.
In a statement, the CICC said its Cybercrime Investigation Office (CIO), in coordination with GCash, found that the data propagated by a dark Web user appeared to be recycled or previously exposed information, repackaged to look like a new breach.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said on Monday, Oct. 27, that it has launched an investigation into a massive alleged data breach involving G-Xchange, operator of GCash, after a large cache of user data reportedly appeared for sale on a dark Web forum over the weekend.
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) secretary Henry Aguda has clarified his stance on the controversial World App project, saying he respects the authority of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) to decide on the legal issues surrounding the iris-scanning technology.
World.org in the Philippines, the local arm of Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has challenged the National Privacy Commission (NPC)’s cease-and-desist order (CDO) against its operations in the Philippines, calling it a “setback for responsible digital innovation” and a reversal of a year-long compliance process undertaken with Philippine authorities.
A growing rift within the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) over the controversial World.org iris-scanning program has drawn sharp criticism from data privacy advocates — including former National Privacy Commission (NPC) chair Raymund Liboro — who warned that the technology risks “turning human eyes into economic assets” and exploiting the poor under the guise of digital inclusion.
A policy rift has emerged within the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) after secretary Henry Aguda publicly endorsed cooperation with World.org’s iris-scanning technology — a move that directly contradicts a cease-and-desist order (CDO) issued by the National Privacy Commission (NPC), an attached agency of the DICT, against the project’s operators over alleged violations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA).
