Yesterday, February 5, we at FMA released a briefing paper on Mandatory SIM Card Registration. We believe that the release is timely, as proposals for a national SIM card registry have been making significant strides in Philippine Congress.
Below is a helpful infographic on some of the risks discussed in the paper:
Popular ride-hailing app Uber recently admitted concealing a massive data breach in 2016 that affected up to 57 million of its users (drivers and riders), including Filipinos. While its full extent remains unclear today, the Read more…
The Foundation for Media Alternatives has successfully conducted its first Privacy and Data Protection Workshop for Civil Society and the Academe in Cebu City. The workshop ran from October 26 to 27, 2017 and was Read more…
This article was originally published on 21 August 2017 as a blog entry at Newsbytes Philippines. For years now, legislators and law enforcement agencies, with support from the executive branch, consistently push for a mandatory Read more…