Privacy body’s decision on Dado v Facebook Inc on Cambridge Analytica issue: Dismissed
Better late than never. As the year 2022 ended, I received an electronic copy of the decision in relation to the National Privacy Commission (NPC)...
Safeguarding digital civic space
Digital rights are a top priority to rebuild civic space amid recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. This latest statement from the United Nations Special Procedures...
Surveillance technologies to fight the #coronavirus pandemic must respect human rights
In early March, I wrote my daily activity, including the people I interacted with, in a journal. I thought it might help me later on...
How do we protect ourselves in the post-Cambridge Analytica world?
Have you watched Netflix’s “The Great Hack”? The film is a compelling documentary on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. After watching the film, I hope...
Possible security issues faced by the consumer in 2019
This was first published on Sunday Business & IT on January 6, 2019. Living Life well online 2018 was the year for data breaches which...
Be safe online during the Holy Week
I’m a bit late in posting this but I received some important tips from the National Privacy Commission (NPC) on how to be safe online. They...
The National Privacy Commission recently held its first assembly for government Data Protection Officers
“Kung di tayo kikilos, sino ang kikilos? Kung ‘di ngayon, kailan pa? (If we won’t act, then who else will? If not now, when?)” National...
Comeleak Part 2? What is known and what still needs to be done
After a computer at the Office of the Election Officer (OEO) in Wao, Lanao del Sur was stolen last January 11, 2017, the National Privacy...
NPC decision on ‘Comeleak’ finds COMELEC Chair Bautista criminally liable
Between March 20 and 27, 2016, the largest data breach on a government-held personal database (dubbed Comeleak), happened when personal information of voters were accessed...