Biyernes, Hulyo 20, 2012

DATA PROTECTION BILL  (House Bill No. 1554)


  • If passed into law this would definitely protect a lot of "Credit Card Holders" who normally provide so  much personal information to the Credit Card Company such as their names, contact details, residence and office address and most importantly bank account details.
  • This would likewise protect those individuals obtaining bank accounts wherein personal information such as those mentioned above and even other financial interests are being disclosed to the bank for purposes of loans, etc. This would give protection apart from Banking Laws.
  • This may also protect passengers purchasing  tickets online from airlines companies because in this process, passengers normally disclose personal information.
  • Verily, it may be noticed that in compliance with the constitutional provisions on government officers or employees disclosures, some specific information of the latter were excluded from the Bill.
  • Sec. 6 of House Bill No. 1554 provides Extraterritorial Application. Granting that there will be no issues on acquiring jurisdiction over foreign entities which provide online services so as to make them a "Personal Information Controller" and thus may be held liable in the Philippines. In my interpretation those foreign entities which may be held liable as foreign entities under Extra territorial application would be the social networks sites and email service providers.
  • A very special provision which I have noticed aside from the creation of the "National Privacy Commission is Sec. 23(f), the "Breach Notification" which provides that the information controller shall promptly notify the commission of any breach of information under their control. Otherwise they shall also be penalized.
  • Finally, the bill classifies the information "Personal Information" and "Sensitive Personal Information" with different penalties. The latter of much higher penalty. This is apart from the criminal liability.

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