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Privacy

5 essential habits a Data Protection Officer should develop

Data privacy may be described as the right of an individual to be free from any unauthorized use or access of his or her personal information. This is achieved via a variety of documentary, physical, and/or technical means. To ensure that data privacy is upheld in any given organization, there Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 7 years ago
Privacy

Revisiting Comeleak, by the numbers

This article was originally posted at GMA News Online. A little over two years ago, in the run-up to the 2016 national elections, a massive data breach earned the Philippines an unenviable place in the global spotlight. The headlines then said it all: Personal data of 55 million Filipino voters exposed! Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 7 years ago
Privacy

What we can learn from the Uber breach

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 breach and the dearth of information surrounding it should be a proper cause for concern. Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Privacy

FMA holds first of Workshop Series on Privacy for CSOs in Cebu

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 attended by around 20 participants from various civil society organizations and universities in the Visayas. Read more…

By Jessamine Pacis, 8 years ago
eVAW

FMA welcomes the filing of Senate Bills 180 and 1251

Pasay City – The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) was invited by the Senate Committee  on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality as one of the resource persons during the second public hearing on Gender-based Electronic Violence (SBN 1251) and the E-VAW Law of 2016. The Public Hearing was presided Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Privacy

SIM Registration: Fueling the Security vs. Privacy Debate

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 SIM card registration in the country. In this Congress, proposals pending at the House of Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Privacy

A cure worse than the disease? | On a national ID system

11 July 2017 Foundation for Media Alternatives’ statement on a national ID system   Officials of the Department of Finance made headlines recently with the pronouncement that the government plans to earmark PhP2 billion for the implementation of a national ID system next year. Together with their peers in the Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Home

3rd Cycle of the Philippines’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

The holding of the third cycle of the Philippines’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) that took place on May 8, 2017 was notable for the FMA. Last year, FMA submitted two reports – one with Privacy International highlighting privacy rights in the country, and the other with the Association for Progressive Communications Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Privacy

COMELeak: A Year Hence

In March 2016, the Philippines took global headlines by storm when the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website was breached and several voters’ databases were leaked online. The breach, popularly referred to as COMELeak, is now known to be one of the biggest government-related breaches in world history as it involved Read more…

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), 8 years ago
Internet Rights

First Data Privacy and Cybersecurity summits held in PH

Last week was a busy one for the newly established Department of Information and Communications Technology, as two of its attached agencies organized the first National Data Privacy Summit and the Cybersecurity Summit separately. The National Privacy Commission convened the first ever national data privacy summit on December 5-6, 2016 at Read more…

By Jessamine Pacis, 8 years ago

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