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Sample Philippine Identification or national ID (File photo) MANILA - All personal information encrypted in the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) is safe and protected, assured the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). In a PSA video presentation posted Friday, PhilSys ambassadors and celebrity couple Matteo Guidicelli and Sarah Geronimo explained the national ID project is bound by the PhilSys Act of 2018 and the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Guidicelli said the project lead implementing ...

(File photo) MANILA - The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday slammed leftist lawmaker France Castro of the Makabayan Bloc for calling the Department's directive urging all barangays in the country to prepare an inventory of unvaccinated individuals as a "witch-hunt" even as it assured the Commission on Human Rights that the program will never violate the individual's right to privacy. "To call the President's directive as well as the ordin...

PDIC, DBP sign agreement for multi-channel payment facility

Except the Philippines, the ASEAN member states Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam have enacted laws requiring mandatory registration of prepaid sim card. Some require biometric or fingerprint identification in addition to the usual p

OFFICIALS of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) recently signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for a multi-channel disbursement facility (MCDF) as “a secure and convenient means to pay deposit insurance to depositors of closed banks,” according to the PDIC. According to the…

Partnership for multi-channel payment facility. The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) recently

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is now investigating the reported hacking and data breach on servers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Comelec/MB In a statement on Wednesday, Jan. 12, NPC Commissioner John Henry D. Naga said the poll body was ordered to appear for a "clarificatory

The National Privacy Commission has set a clarificatory meeting between the Commission on Elections and the Manila Bulletin, who first reported the alleged data breach concerning 2022 polls, on January 25.

The National Privacy Commission had set a meeting between the Commission on Elections and Manila Bulletin for a separate investigation into the alleged

THE National Privacy Commission (NPC) has ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to submit on January 21 the results of its probe on the alleged hacking incident potentially involving personal information just a few months before the national and local polls. Privacy Commissioner John Henry D. Naga said in a…