Compliance guide to the Data Privacy Act

Philippine companies are given until Sept. 9 to fully comply with the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act or Republic Act 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 also lead to being issued an order to stop processing transactions, being ordered to pay damages to data subjects whose rights were violated, and jailtime for accountable officers.

To help validate your organizations’ action plan on this, the Center for Global Best Practices is holding a seminar entitled, “Compliance and Implementation Best Practices to the Data Privacy Act,” scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 20 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines.

The seminar will feature lawyer Rose Marie KingDominguez, 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 on a variety of industries on privacy and data protection issues, matters involving employee data policies, BYOD, 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 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, ransom ware 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 pre-registration is required.

For details and a complete list of best practices seminars, you may log on to www.cgbp.

org or call (+63 2) 842-7148/ 59 and 556-8968/69, Cebu lines: (+63 32) 512-3106 or 07, Baguio line: (+6374) 423-5148 or Legazpi line: (+63 52) 7360148.