MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno Aquino III has signed into law the Date Privacy Act that seeks to boost investment in the fast growing information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) industries.

Republic Act No. 10173, which is based on standards set by the European Parliament and aligned with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Information Privacy Framework, is intended to protect the integrity and confidentiality of personal data.

The new law, signed by the President on August 15, paves the way for the creation of a National Privacy Commission under the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).

It was a priority measure of the administration through the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council.

The law covers all types of processed personal information.

It does not apply, however, to the following:

1. Information about government officials or employees that are related to their official functions or positions;

2. Information about an individual who previously performed or is presently performing service under contract for a government institution;

3. Information relating to any discretionary benefit of a financial nature such as the granting of a license or permit by the government to an individual;

4. Personal information processed for journalistic, artistic, literary or research purposes;

5. Personal data processed by the central monetary authority and law enforcement and regulatory agencies;

6. Information necessary for banks and under financial institutions; and

7. Personal information collected from residents of foreign jurisdiction.

Section 5 of the law specifically affords protection to journalists who may use leaked information in their reporting.

Business Processing Association of the Philippines president Benedict Hernandez said the new law brings the Philippines to international standards of privacy protection.

“Much of our work involves confidential personal and company information, and client firms of our IT-BPOs want to know that the Philippines provides international standards of protection to safeguard their information,” Benedict said.

The local IT-BPO sector has been clamoring for such a measure for several years now since a lot of information processed by call centers and BPO offices here are sensitive and confidential data from companies abroad.

Investor confidence, particularly in the booming BPO sector, is therefore expected to get a boost from the enactment of the law, as the industry strives to generate $20 billion in revenues and 1.2 million direct employment by 2016.

(With additional report from Patrick Villavicencio)

 

source: http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/aquino-signs-data-privacy-act-into-law

BNShosting is proud to host the official website of EDNAS SCHOOL http://ednasschool.edu.ph/

EDNAS School of Dagupan City is one of the awarded school in Excellence in Education Transformation.

EDNAS upholds its goal of national competitiveness as its Grade School and High School Department bagged honors and bested 16 other competing regions in the country in the recently concluded 2012 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) held at Holy Trinity University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan last April 9 to 12.

Staffers of ‘The Torch’, the official student publication of the Grade School Department topped as the National Champion in the on-the-spot Best Infomercial and 3rd Place in Best Script for Scriptwriting and Radio Broadcasting English competition, whipping out 16 broadcasting teams in the Philippines.

Adding pride and eminence not only to the institution but also to the entire Ilocos Region is Maria Patricia G. Precioso, a fifth grader, who garnered National Best Anchor (3rd Place) and Russell Vincent F. Manaois, a sixth grader, who snagged National Best in Technical Application (3rd Place) in the said countrywide event.

The winners in broadcasting are: Keno Roberto S. Frianeza, Jerico Miguel T. Rangel, Muriel Louise U. Aquino, Russell Vincent F. Manaois, Maria Patricia G. Precioso, Cheska Nicole L. Matabang and Anton Louis Vivencio M. Villaflor IV.

Meanwhile, Justine C. Tanael of the High School Department ranked 2nd in the first-ever Collaborative Publishing Contest in the country.

Benedict M. Uson trained the winners in broadcasting while Dierva A. Bernardo coached the high school contestant.

Among the other regions which participated and snatched the top five spots in the said national confab were CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Cagayan Valley and Davao Region. The EDNAS School takes pride as it is the only school which brought home 11 medals and a trophy for Region One.

Bitstop Network Services, Inc. and Dun & Bradstreet Philippines, Inc. (D&B)
recently inked an agreement which authorizes Bitstop to market and sell
D&B’s suite of Online Trust Solutions (OTS) as an affiliate partner.

“We believe that a synergy exists between D&B and Bitstop,” says Jennifer
Non, D&B’s Marketing Manager. “Bitstop is an established player in the IT
space, offering a wide range of products and services including web hosting.
OTS is a complementary, value-add service that Bitstop can offer to its web
hosting clients.”

Enhancing trust and confidence in online transactions

With the explosive growth of the Internet and e-commerce, businesses are now
faced with the pressing dilemma of reassuring its customers regarding the
legitimacy of its existence and its ability to provide the products and
services that they claim to offer. Recognizing this need, D&B launched the
Online Trust Solutions offering in May 2011 to the Philippine market.

Quite simply, D&B’s suite of Online Trust Solutions offers the business
community the opportunity to enhance the trust and confidence in the online
space by displaying verified and validated information through the display
of a D-U-N-SR RegisteredT seal on their website, emails, and other
electronic documents. “D&B’s Online Trust Solutions provide a way for
companies to communicate to their website viewers – who are basically their
potential clients, suppliers and partners – that their company’s identity
and information has been verified by a third party, and that the website
being viewed is actually owned and maintained by their organization,” Non
explains.

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contains more than 190 million business records. The database is enhanced by
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with quality business information. This quality information is the
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D&B provides solution sets that meet a diverse set of customer needs
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faster by enabling business professionals to research companies, executives
and industries, over the web

Johar Alam is a “Philippine-educated” Chairman Internet Data Center Indonesia, OpenIXP Administrator, Junior Internet Indonesian who helped setup one of the most successful internet exchanges in the Asia Pacific region.

He will be going on a vacation in Manila next week. Sir Bayani Benjamin Lara requested him to give a short talk about their experiences in running one of the Indonesia’s Internet exchange, and to give some insights on how it has helped improve domestics routing in their country. Also he will be discussing how he was able to build a very tight “community among the ISP’s there.

He will also be talking about how they built IDC Indonesia, one of the “hippest” places to do network deployments and maintenance.

Check the profile of Johar Alam at http://id.linkedin.com/pub/johar-alam-rangkuti/19/169/4a3