Daily Tribune (Philippines)

Supreme Court will resolve LTO contract petition

- BY ALVIN MURCIA @tribunephl_alvi

The P3.19-billion contract of the Land Transporta­tion Office (LTO) it entered with a German firm is set to be resolved by the Supreme Court (SC).

This after the high bench has submitted for its resolution the petition seeking to nullify the multi-billion contract of the LTO in 2018 with Dermalog Joint Venture, a German firm, for the Land Transporta­tion Management System (LTMS).

The case stemmed from the petition filed by Gerald Domingo and Atty. Jose Carlito M. Montenegro who told the court that the continuous existence of a flawed agreement may eventually lead to a threat to national security and even breach of informatio­nal privacy of the LTO data that include private informatio­n of the agency’s clients like them.

The petition stated that“Paying Dermalog JV, keeping LTO technologi­cally captured, continuall­y exposing unauthoriz­ed access to LTO’s data in foreign countries… undermine public welfare, threaten national security, and breach informatio­nal privacy of LTO data subjects, like herein petitioner­s who are taxpayers, drivers, motorists and motor vehicle owners.”

The LTMS was envisioned to integrate all LTO services — like issuance of driver’s license and transport permits, and registrati­on of motor vehicles — into a single database and digital platform.

It would be a web-based core system that would replace the old system of LTO, including the establishm­ent and operation of an exclusive on-premises private cloud, network operations center, technical support, and helpdesk centers.

Acting on the petition, the SC required the LTO and Dermalog to file their comments.

The plea for a temporary restrainin­g order sought in the petition would be acted by the SC as soon as the comments were filed.

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