DECEMBER 2022
GenderScoop is a monthly digest on gender & ICT in the Philippines
Mandatory SIM Card Registration
Republic Act No. 11934, or the SIM Card Registration Act, was signed into law on October 10, 2022 to help curb scams and other crimes and on December 12, National Telecommunications Commission released its implementing rules and regulations requiring all Filipinos to register their SIM cards within 180 days from the effectivity of the law. However, this measure could lead to data breaches and privacy violations, and have an impact on women’s rights.
Meanwhile, the advocacy group Junk SIM Registration Network warned that the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the law failed to include alternative means for individuals without proof of identity, reflecting what it described as the law’s “anti-people nature.”
In case you missed you the Round Table Discussion on Feminist Principles of the Internet in Mindanao, this premiere video is available on Youtube.
From Awareness to Commitment: 18-Day of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
- COA re-commits total support to end violence against women
- DPWH backs violence against women drive
- DOT 7 supports annual drive to end violence vs. women, kids
- Group lauds 5 LGUs for passage of anti-Osec ordinances
- Talisay councilor drafts ordinance to end violence against women
- PNP to intensify efforts vs. fugitive foreigners
- NBI acquires equipment capable of extracting deleted messages from smartphones
The impact of online gender-based violence on vulnerable sectors
- Private photos captured by a robot vacuum cleaner ends up leaked on social media
- ‘It’s relentless’: Canada media demand action over online abuse
- [Podcast] How anti-trans hate speech online leads to real-world violence
- NBI nabs woman for ‘online sexual exploitation of children’ in Romblon
- NBI rescues 4-year-old child from cybersex trafficking in Cebu
- House panel tackles amendments to give cybercrime law more teeth
- Rationality best response to online abuse — mental health guide
- 3 child traffickers sentenced to life imprisonment in Pasig, Taguig
- Worker arrested for ‘fondling genitals’ in front of female colleague freed
- Legal systems being misused to muzzle free speech – Unesco
- PNP busts love scam syndicate in Las Piñas
- UN: Philippines lacks trained staff vs child abuse
Tech for Good or Bad?
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