Articles tagged with “data privacy act of 2012”

Why do we need to Protect our Privacy and Data Online?

August 7, 2021

Privacy is something we have not been taking seriously for quite some time now. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought massive changes to the way we live in the past year and a half. Most of our daily errands and activities have gone online, like paying bills, doing grocery shopping, sending money, and performing bank-related transactions. If it has not been too obvious yet, we have become more and more reliant on doing things online, accessing digital versions of our daily… Read the rest

MozillaPH to Host Data Privacy Act IRR Talk

Robert "Bob" Reyes

October 3, 2016

Four years ago, in August 2012, Republic Act 10173 (popularly known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012) was enacted. Just a few weeks ago, in August 2016, the Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA 10173 was published. An act protecting individual personal information in information and communications systems in the government and the private sector, creating for this purpose a National Privacy Commission and for other purposes. Part of Mozilla’s Manifesto (the principles that guide our mission to promote… Read the rest