Filipino taxpayers can now avail themselves of their digital Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) announced Thursday. [...]
When our Data Privacy Law was passed in 2012, the Philippines became one of the first countries in the region to have one. [...]
Digital solutions platform Globe and Security Bank have joined forces to strengthen cybersecurity efforts in response to the increasing volume and sophistication of financial crimes in the Philippines. [...]
Cybersecurity awareness in the Philippines has to be scaled up to avert potentially costly and dangerous cyberattacks in the country, even if cybersecurity firm Kaspersky observed a notable decline in web threats so far this year. [...]
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano urged the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) to hire more cybersecurity experts amid the series of hacking and data breaches of government websites. [...]
Gen. Benjamin Acorda, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has ordered the boosting of cybersecurity of all data down to the police stations amid the series of data breaches on government agencies. [...]
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said some personal information that “resembled” those from the site OneExpert was compromised following a data leak incident late in August. [...]
Hackers have leaked the compromised data from a recent ransomware attack against the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said Thursday.[...]
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said that the probe and the restoration of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (PhilHealth) security systems and functionality are already underway after a ransomware attack. [...]
The Supreme Court (SC) is set to finish its review on protective writs by early next year.[...]
Iriga City prosecutors have dismissed a complaint for violation of the Data Privacy Act filed by the police against a reporter from a local radio station in August. [...]
With digitisation accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, data collection is now a default part of our daily lives and the regulation of data use has become central to the right to privacy. [...]
The country's privacy watchdog hopes to secure a ₱510 million budget for next year to beef up its system, with its top official admitting the agency does not have enough capacity to protect the public’s information and investigate data breach incidents. [...]
The Data Privacy Council (DP Council), in cooperation with the National Privacy Commission (NPC), embarked on the first leg of the Data Privacy Roadshow on September 8, 2023, at the SMX Convention Center in Clark, Pampanga in pursuit of strengthening data privacy knowledge and compliance. The Roadshow was made possible through DP Council’s partnership with Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), DITO Telecommunity Corporation, Bankers Association of the Philippines, and San Miguel Food Group. [...]
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) has disclosed a data breach stemming from a third-party healthcare IT service provider IBM. [...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) have entered into a data sharing agreement (DSA) in a bid to provide better trade services. [...]