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The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has also asked the National Telecommunications Commission to take down the website Pilipinas2022.ph for multiple violations of the Data Privacy Act.

The NPC said limiting access to the full features of IM apps due to the user’s denial to grant app permissions may be unnecessary.

The NPC said the collaboration is in recognition of the significant synergies and complementarity on the respective duties and functions of both agencies in the protection of data privacy and cybersecurity.

Pasig City mayor Vico Sotto said they introduced PasigPass to reduce transmission and address a wave of complaints that people were receiving marketing messages after filling out contact-tracing forms, an indication of wide data misuse.

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) stressed the proposed fines are separate from the criminal penalties and fines provided under the Data Privacy Act (DPA) and its implementing rules and regulations.

Are there legal remedies available to a person whose “intimate photo” while dining at a restaurant is posted in a social media platform accompanied by a “derisive caption"?

Pres. Rodrigo Duterte has appointed former DICT assistant secretary Ivin Ronald Alzona as the new executive director of the National Privacy Commission (NPC).

Humanitarian work entails data protection work. Let’s make sure that is always the case.

Reports over the weekend have indicted that a large-scale breach affected 533 million global users in Facebook.

The privacy body said a certain hacker under the name “creepxploit” is selling the personal data of 3.3 million users of Cashalo containing their usernames, passwords, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and device identifications.