Data privacy, protection important for PH – IBM

This “incident”, the term authorities will describe my chaotic adventure, is an eye-opener for everyone. These people- in- theknow possibly followed an agreed-upon process that would protect NAIA and the airlines from costly litigation. The government owes it to every passenger to make sure that “this case of chaos” does not happen again. Don’t allow the “Xiamen crash landing” to become a standard in NAIA crisis management. DATA privacy has strong relevance

chair and CEO.

Green was speaking at a media roundt a b l e discussion on data governance and artificial IBM Asia Pacific chair and CEO Harriet Green intelligence ( AI) at Have they had breaches? What did they do in the case of a breach?

These questions drive home the point that data protection as well as transparency on AI use is also the responsibility of companies.

the largest banks in the Philippines which the tech company works with face multiple cyber attacks per day, including phishing.

incidents and discovered that very organized gangs were responsible for the attacks.

Green said that the company sticks to the principle that whatever data they have is the clients’ data. “If we want to use that for anything, we explicitly and clearly ask the client for their express permission,” she said, adding that with global industries now jumping on the digitization

world’s data belongs to enterprises and is therefore not searchable.

Data privacy and protection also involve the government. Government policies are called for in specific situations when citizens fail to safeguard their own data and the companies involved don’t have robust data protection strategies in place for their clients.

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he is pleased at how the Philippine government is taking appropriate steps to come up with such policies.

“Once privacy laws come into place in countries, you don’t see government saying ‘Let’s have an

it happens here,” he explained. “It’s very pragmatic, it’s very engaged — mixing industry with consumer groups together.”

Summing up the discussion, Green stated that data is the new oil.

“Here in the Philippines, your number 1 industry is services,

around the information and the data and the insights that we are working on for clients worldwide,” she said. “Imagine if there was no protection as the oil came gushing out of the ground.”