Compliance guide seminar on Data Privacy Act set

Philippine companies are given until Sept. 9 to fully comply with the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act or Republic Act No. 10173 or face sanctions and penalties which range from one to six years imprisonment, and a fine of not less than P500,000 and not more than P5 million, depending on the violation. Non-compliance of businesses can lead to being issued an order to stop processing transactions, pay damages to data subjects whose rights were violated and jail time for accountable officers.

To help validate your organizations’ compliance action plan, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching its pioneering seminar entitled, “Compliance and Implementation Best Practices to the Data Privacy Act,” on Sept. 20 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City. For details and a complete list of best practices seminars, on to www.cgbp.org or call (+63 2) 8427148/ 59 and 5568968/ 69, Cebu (+63 32) 5123106 or 07, Baguio (+63 74) 4235148 or Legazpi (+63 52) 7360148.

Private and government organizations will find this very useful to benchmark and find out if they are on the right track on the compliance to this law. Business owners, board directors, the management and employees including chief information officers, data controllers and processors must have a complete understanding of its implementation.

This will feature Atty. Rose Marie King-Dominguez, partner at the largest law firm in the country, Sycip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan. She specializes in media and telecoms among many others. She advises clients in a variety of industries on privacy and data protection issues, matters involving employee data policies, offshore storage, use of data in customer agreements and privacy policies and terms and conditions on sites. The second lecturer will be Angel Redoble who is presently the chief information security officer (CISO) of e-PLDT. He has over 20 years of local and international experience as an IT practitioner with extensive expertise in cyber security, cyber warfare and digital weaponry, cyber terrorism, digital forensic, vulnerability assessment, ransomware investigation, penetration testing, ISMS, ISO 27001 and PCS DSS compliance audits, SOX compliance review, and enterprise security risk assessment.

Interested participants are encouraged to avail of the early payment savings discount and group discount for three or more participants. Seats are limited and preregistration is required.