PSA

Among the regions, the highest percentage utilization of e-commerce via Internet was recorded in ARMM, in which one out of three establishments reported purchased of goods or services via Internet translating to 33.3 percent.

Pilipinas Teleserv, the company behind PSAHelpline.ph, has stopped accepting online and telephone applications from the public last January 4 after being told by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that its contract has been cancelled.

The series of pilot test registrations will run from September 2019 until May 2020 before the mass registration scheduled in June.

Under the MOA agreement signed between the BSP and the PSA, the central bank will produce within three years 116 million blank cards that will have security features that are said to be are better than those used in making passports.

PSA head Lisa Grace S. Bersales said they are targeting to issue national IDs to all living Filipinos by 2023.

The Computer Professionals' Union (CPU) called for both the government and the public ?to be more critical and discerning of a policy, which centralizes and makes a tempting target of massive amounts of personal information.?

The PSA said it will announce the opening of bid procurement for the national ID by the third week of October.