The Philippines, through the National Privacy Commission (NPC), has joined the APEC Cross Border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement (CPEA), an enforcement network developed for the Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR).
A grizzled IT veteran who was part of the defunct Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) and a brainy lawyer-physician have been named as deputy commissioners of the new National Privacy Commission.
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).
