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DOJAC The Department of Justice Action Center (DOJAC) has launched three manuals and guidelines to improve further its operations nationwide. In a statement, DOJAC said the manuals and guidelines – Data Privacy Manual, 8888 Guidelines, and Revised Procedural Manual – were released last June 29.

Until his final days in office, there was one appeal that Rodrigo Duterte kept airing openly to his successor: sustain the campaign against illegal drugs.

From building keycard records to detailed financial information, landlords, developers and property management companies have access to huge amounts of data, and U.S. regulators are...

Supreme Court The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that a person cannot invoke his constitutional right to privacy if the photographs and messages from his social media posts, like those in Facebook Messenger, are pieces of evidence obtained by private individuals and not by law enforcers or by othe

Local small-to-medium businesses (SMEs) expect a better year starting 2022. According to the Sun Life Business Growth and Resilience Index updated on April 29, 2022 where 2,400 SME owners across Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam were surveyed in late 2021, 70% of the total SME respondents…

'TOL VIEWS The current world population as of June 2022 is around eight billion. Out of these eight billion souls, our desire to be an individual remembered in life by the generations to come – to leave a legacy and to have a substantial contribution to society – is attributable to a need to achi

MANILA - The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has pledged to continue protecting the Filipino people's data privacy rights and its awareness campaign on the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA). In a statement on Friday, NPC Commissioner John Henry Naga said the NPC is eyeing to continue equipping Filipinos with knowledge on data privacy, security, and protection. "The NPC will carry on in implementing programs, reforms, and projects to create a strong culture of privacy in the Philippines,&...

The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are considered to be a global standard for the protection of personal information. Across Africa, many existing data security and protection laws were modelled on the regulations of the EU’s first data privacy legislation - the EU Data Protection Directive (1995), which preceded the GDPR. Current

The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are considered to be a global standard for the protection of personal information. Across Africa, many existing data security and protection laws were modelled on the regulations of the EU’s first data privacy legislation - the EU Data Protection Directive (1995), which preceded the GDPR. Current data protection law in Africa is therefore largely similar to the GDPR, although there are also some significant differenc...

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