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Divina Ilas-Panganiban

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28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

In Part I of this series, we introduced the Philippine Government’s Implementing Rules of the Cybercrime Law and outlined certain requirements that now apply to “service providers”, as that term is defined under the Cybercrime Law. Click here to view Part I of the series. Below we examine some additional provisions of the Implementing Rules. Service Providers’ Exemption from LiabilityThe Implementing Rules carve out an exemption from liability for service providers in the offense of “illegal…