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The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has warned the public against smishing where mobile users received unsolicited SMS allegedly due to the contact information they provided in COVID-19 contact tracing and health declaration forms. Privacy Commissioner Raymund E. Liboro has urged the public

NPC raises concerns over new privacy terms of WhatsApp Share on email The National Privacy Commission (NPC) issued a statement on Thursday, Jan. 21, raising its concerns over the new privacy terms of messaging app WhatsApp. WhatsApp is set to change its privacy policy in a way that would allow the sharing of data with third-party companies hosted by its parent firm Facebook, the NPC said. “The move, according to WhatsApp’s new privacy terms, is exclusively intended to expand the application...