The PhilSys Act seeks to implement a single official identification card for all citizens and foreign residents that would serve as a de facto national identification number.
Companies which collect personal information from customers such as banks should disclose certain things either before data gathering or within a reasonable period after.
The government will launch a synchronized effort to promptly deal with consumer complaints on telco services such as those involving data privacy violations, text scams, vanishing load, unauthorized charges, defective product, and denial of subscription plan activation.
The National Privacy Commission has ordered Jollibee to suspend the operations of its online delivery site and all other websites open to the public after the fastfood giant submitted a data breach report last December 12, 2017.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has posted on its website a formal order, dated May 2, obliging Wendy's Philippines to promptly notify data subjects affected in the breach and wholesale leak of its database last April 23.
Two years after the country?s biggest government data breach hit global headlines, non-government organization Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has released a briefing paper that proposes some major takeaways and action points -- both on the part of government and the private sector.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it has summoned the management and responsible officials of seven schools, institutions, and local government units as it investigates data breaches they sustained following an organized attack on government and commercial organizations last April 1.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) announced on Friday, April 13, that it is opening an investigation on Faceboook following Mark Zuckerberg's admission of the company's faults in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that affected Filipino Facebook users.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said the sale of Uber's Southeast Asia operations to main rival Grab will not affect its ongoing investigation into past Uber breaches that involved Filipino users.
The list of professionals includes medical doctors, lawyers, accountants and dentists, among others, who process personal data and satisfy the criteria for mandatory DPS registration.
