As June kicks off, you may notice a rainbow takeover. From online to your local high street, businesses, organizations, institutions, and services are showing their support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, plus (LGBT+) community for Pride Month 2023.
FMA released a key message that breach of privacy poses real risks to the LGBTQ+ community.
You can also check other PRIDE news:
- LGBTQ community celebrates Pride in the face of online and offline attacks
ADL GLAAD Report Cites More Than 350 Anti-LGBTQ Incidents Over 11 Months - Rise in anti-LGBTQ hate and extremism captured in new reports – ABC News
- How Canada’s Pride events are changing amid rise in anti-LGBTQ2 online threats – National
- Twitter is the worst major social media platform when it comes to LGBTQ+ safety, says GLAAD
What we gather this month:
Reports of various forms of gender-based violence continued. How responsive are laws in the Philippines? Are there instances in which we need to rethink about how we deal with gender and ICT?
- Man held for sextortion
- Wanted persons arrested for violating Safe Spaces Act
- Debtors Slam Lending Apps After Receiving Funeral Flowers, Coffin
- Cop held for sexual harassment
- Two arrested in Coron for lascivious conduct, violation of VAWC law
- Former OFW Mother Arrested for Exploiting Minor Children Online
- Cybercops jail vendor for ‘sextortion’
- Phl Retains Tier 1 Status In US Trafficking In Persons Report
- Victims of harassment by online lenders troop to PNP to file charges
- Man nabbed for sharing sex videos on social media
- DICT forms special task group to counter phishing, cyber scams – CNN Philippines
- Vera Files gets death threats over fact check
- 4 female minors rescued from online sexual exploitation
- 2,700 people tricked into working for cybercrime syndicates rescued in Philippines
Latest content about Deepfakes
- Face it: deepfakes are better and riskier than we think
- [Video] Deepfakes: A threat to democracy?
- Did they smile? Experts dissect the growing concern of AI-powered deepfakes
- Blackmailers are using AI to generate nudes from social media photos
- [WhitePaper] Sextortion, Deepfakes, and AI Scams: How to Protect Children from Cyberattacks
- UN warns of AI’s threat on information integrity; deep fakes and image generators worrying
- 67% of people aware of AI deepfakes, 52% confident they can spot it — study
- Revenge and deepfake porn laws to be toughened
Philippine Government Initiatives. The government rolled out initiatives to surface nuances on women’s rights in the digital environment
- Palawan’s Interagency Task Force on Women and Children takes aim at prevention and monitoring
- [Opinion] VAWC law covers lesbian relationships
- Duterte calls to ‘capacitate Filipino women’
- Unleashing the power of consumer education to safeguard the digital economy
- DepEd urged to disclose findings on Cavite school sexual abuse case
- Villar encourages women to embrace digital transformation
- DSWD, World Bank exchange knowledge on use of digital ID for social services
- Local politicians take lead in filing libel cases against journalists – NUJP study
- Philippine activists ask High Court to protect them from government
- LGUs urged to go extra mile to ‘sign up’ 10M unregistered SIMs | Philippine News Agency
- DepEd maintains memo on submission of list of union members does not violate data privacy
- PhilSec leapfrogs to the top with the strong support from NPC and CICC
Tech for Good or Bad? Technology is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which it is put that makes the difference.
- Unmasking Fake Job Ads: JobStreet’s #ProjectCombat Aims to Shield Job Seekers From Growing Scam Threats
- Pacific firms told to invest in ICT infrastructures
- Amazon charged with privacy violations over Alexa and Ring cameras
- Telco Tower electrification delays will bog down digital economy
- PH needs more cybersecurity professionals to counter cyber attacks, says USAID speacialist
- Is the politics of Big Tech risking kids’ safety online?
- Coding to training: Philippines tackles online child sexual abuse
- Social media breeds, spreads contempt of community journalists
- Social media: A multiple-edged sword for community journalists
- Huawei committed to End-to-End Cyber Security Practice
- Alibaba opens online course for Filipino entrepreneurs
Connect-Your-Rights. Internet rights are economic, social and cultural rights
- Time to compel social media to protect HRDs
- Online violence is trying to silence women journalists. Here’s how they’re fighting back.
- The Philippines ranks 27th in cybersecurity literacy
- Digital rights groups, individuals urge UNESCO to reassess Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms
- Navigating the bad side of online connection
- How Your Online Data is Being Abused to Surveil you and Violate Your Freedoms
- The Importance of Privacy
- DICT: 65% Of Phl Not Connected To Internet
- What is Digital Rights Management (DRM)?
- Digital News Report: Filipinos more ‘cautious’ of expressing political views
- Rights group asks Kalinga gov’t to review ‘red-tagging’ policy
- Filipino women can win the fight against cybermisogyny
- More gender-sensitive policies ‘needed’ for women to thrive in e-commerce: UN
- ACT stressses DepEd memo compromises safety, privacy of teachers
- CHR backs bill granting maternity benefits for women workers in informal sector
Digital Safety & Security Tips
- Privacy vs. Security: Discovering the Difference
- Google launches hacker-backed SME security training scheme
- Five steps to enhance digital risk management practices
- Stay safe and check your app is secure
- The Different Forms of Online Abuse
- #HowTo: Protect Organizations Against ChatGPT Cyber-Threats
Beyond the Philippines
- NASA UFO panel faced online harassment
- AFP lends expertise to popular television show to raise awareness of online threats to children
- Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Explicit Content and Sextortion Schemes
- 26th Cine Europa puts the spotlight on the realities happening in the cyber world
- Eavesdroppers, code-breakers and digital snoops: a deep dive into one of the most secret branches of Australian intelligence
- Taylor Swift’s accused stalker who showed up at her house and threatened her with bomb gets arrested
- Supreme Court clarifies when online harassment can be prosecuted
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