



Privacy Commission says suspending Data Privacy Act as recommended by business groups is counterproductive in curbing COVID-19 transmission Science and medical ethics dictate that publicly naming COVID-infected individuals does not help in decreasing the transmission of infection and is counterproductive. The call to suspend the Data Privacy Act (DPA) is gross disregard for the expert opinions of epidemiologists and scientists around the world and the reality happening on the ground, especially in countries […] READ MORE





Privacy Commission wants deeper probe of Facebook, tells social media giant to do more to protect users We are initiating a deeper probe on Facebook’s proposed preventive actions regarding the proliferation of suspicious accounts as such activities on the platform continue to threaten the personal data privacy and other security-related rights of its Filipino users. According to Facebook, they “removed two separate networks for violating our policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB). […] READ MORE