Compliance for data privacy law pressed

DAVAO CITY: Management experts underscored the importance of data privacy and called on the government and private sectors to comply with the Data Privacy Act of 2112 in ensuring it “in the age of disruption.”

“The digital age cannot be denied as we can no longer depend on pen and paper,” Raymund Liboro, commissioner of the National Privacy Commission (NPC), told a forum the Management Association of the Philippines and the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. hosted here recently.

To ensure data privacy, management representatives were told to come up with a data protection

privacy management program, privacy and data protection, and breach reporting procedures.

“Let us help build a culture of privacy so as not to be negligent,” said Liboro.

Reginald Ezeh, partner and data scientist of a United States-based data

should be exempted from complying with the law on data privacy.

He said common trends in breaches of data privacy include social engineering tactics, human behavior like credential re-use, popular vulnerabilities that hackers exploit, social engineering, phishing, business email, executive impersonation, payroll schemes and cyber extortion mails.

Similarly, Jaime Casto Jose Garchitorena, president and CEO of the state-run Credit Information Corp., called for management to ensure institutional integrity through integrity control, access control, transmission security, audit controls and through the use of recorded and auditable data.