A Kill Switch to Data Privacy Protection?
A Kill Switch to Data Privacy Protection? When Filipinos make laws, we put our own “Filipino flavor” to the law. Does it make it more palatable to the Filipinos or to Philippine setting? Or does it create a bad taste in the mouth? The Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173) aims to protect the fundamental human right of everyone to data privacy. The Philippines and its people give the highest degree of value to human rights and we share this value to all, regardless of nationality, religion, ethnicity or ideology. The Philippine Declaration of Human and People ’ s Rights before the Human Rights Osaka (HURIGHTS) provides: “We, peoples of the Philippines, give highest value to the dignity and fullness of life of the human person and share a common aspiration for human rights—even as we speak different languages and dialects, profess different spiritual beliefs and uphold different ideologies. ...