Dateline: 29 May 2018, Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City
Last year, got appointed as Data Protection Officer of our Bureau, a mandatory requirement for all officer per Republic Act No. 10173, or the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Last May 28 and 29, the National Privacy Commission put together the First National Data Privacy Conference, in observance also of the National Privacy Awareness Week.
One of the closing plenary sessions of the conference was on "Pinoy Social Media: Ethics and Privacy." The program booklet describes the session:
Unlike traditional businesses, for social media, the consumer is also the commodity. Personal information has always been the lifeblood, the very currency that propels social media....
Are we still really in control of our information? What legal or ethical rules should govern the collection and sharing of personal data posted by users online?Guest speakers for this session included two lawyer socmed personalities, representing opposing sides of online political discourse: Atty. Jesus Falcis and Atty. Bruce Rivera. (There they are above, on the right sofa, seated on opposite ends, or as far as the sofa can afford them.)
The session was kinda blah for me. Not a lot of the audience got engaged with the session. I think this topic would have been better addressed as a satellite, or breakout activity.
[This post is antedated: 20180702]
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