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 lawyer who uses social media to publicly insult and undermine the reputation of another person has violated the Code of Professional Responsibility for lawyers and may therefore be disciplined.
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.
