Stronger public-private sector tie-up to address cybercrimes
MANILA - The continued public-private sector partnership is expected to further solidify measures against fraud, especially now that more financial transactions are done digitally. Lawyer Irish Almeida, Globe Telecom's chief privacy officer, said continued collaboration, exchange of information, and "possibly even joint investigation teams or task forces, especially in connection with current scams and other fraudulent activities", are seen to efficiently address cybercrimes. "The NPC (National Privacy Commission), in particular, sends us scams/spam messages for investigatio...