EITSC, PEZA sign landmark agreement on data privacy

THE European Innovation, Technology, and Science Center (EITSC) is set to provide programs and solutions that will allow all Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) locators nationwide to be data privacy compliant. In an agreement, the EITSC will conduct trainings and workshops with companies inside the economic zones that will allow them to be compliant with R.A. No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act under the PEZA Data Protection Program. Under the law, a company should have an appointed data protection officer, conducts privacy impact assessment, create privacy knowledge management program, implement privacy and data protection policy, and exercise breach reporting procedure.