ADVERTISEMENT“Our forthcoming election would be different because I believe it will see the unprecedented use of technology and unprecedented use of data and personal data,” said Raymund Liboro, chair of the NPC. 10173, or the Data Privacy Act of 2012, specifies how to make inviolable the privacy of Filipinos’ communication and correspondence, as mandated by the Constitution, and also has penal provisions. He reminded political parties, candidates, social media networks, search engines, and telecommunication companies that they have obligations related to the handling of personal data. Liboro also called on the public to be vigilant and report to the NPC any practice that they believe to be a violation of their data privacy or similar to their experience. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself admitted in a US congressional hearing that Facebook was involved in the data collection and apologized.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 09, 2021 21:33 UTC