The National Privacy Commission (NPC) ordered telecommunication firms to make sure “secure” dealing with of knowledge in mild of the implementation of the SIM Card Registration Act.
The NPC stated it met with telecommunication firms to handle the general public’s information privateness issues over the SIM Registration Act on Thursday.
Privacy Commissioner John Henry Naga known as the assembly to debate these issues, together with the “notices and tick-boxes that may be displayed on telcos’ websites and mobile applications asking for the users’ permission or consent in using their personal data submitted for marketing, profiling, or sharing with third-party partners.”
Naga directed telcos to incorporate on a separate web page the notices and tick-boxes that aren’t associated to SIM Card Registration, significantly these on information sharing with third-party entities.
He additionally urged the telcos to incorporate modifications and enhancements on their web sites and purposes to additional adjust to the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
“Telcos must ensure the secure, ethical, and responsible handling of data, especially in all data processing being conducted in compliance with the SIM Registration Act,” he stated in a press release launched on Friday.
“Their obligation to comply with the SIM Registration Act comes hand-in-hand with ensuring that data privacy and protection is upheld. Such includes the implementation of mechanisms that would allow the assurance to its data subjects that the data being collected are for the purposes of the SIM Card Registration,” he added.
Naga stated the fee will coordinate with the telcos for correct implementation of the regulation.
“The commission maintains that protecting citizens’ privacy and ensuring that data privacy rights of mobile users are upheld as one of the cornerstones for the successful implementation of SIM Card Registration,” he stated.
“The fee will proceed to carefully coordinate with Telcos and different stakeholders for the correct implementation of the regulation,” he added.
Over two million million SIM playing cards have been registered by the nation’s main telecommunications firms over the primary two days of the mandated itemizing, the telcos stated in separate statements on Wednesday. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
