With almost everyone under lockdown all over the world, a lot of our daily activities are slowly but sure moving online – at least for those that can be done online, things ranging from shopping, food delivery, working, and consultations with professionals. This situation puts a lot of personal information stored in some server located god-knows-where or floating around in the cloud. Now, more than ever, it would be prudent for everyone to know their rights when it comes to their personal information.   Let us first define what personal information is. Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy...

Ever since COVID-19 pandemic has begun, many have been hearing the phrase “Flattening the curve,” a strategy known worldwide as one of the goals of imposing lockdown due to the pandemic. This plan aims to reduce the number of positive coronavirus cases found daily to prevent the failure of health care systems all over the world. U.S.-based New England Complex Systems Institute through EndCoronavirus.org released information as to which countries are actually flattening the curve and which ones need to take action—our country, the Philippines, unfortunately, is part of the latter. Visual representations are shown to determine which countries are winning and not.  ...

Let’s face it, our lives are indelibly regulated by the numerous contracts that we enter into. And no, I’m not just talking about the document that we commonly know as a “contract”. But in view of the current pandemic and the containment measures that government has imposed and that we are all experiencing, we keep on hearing about rent payment holidays, deferred payments of obligations, and the like. Basically, what these all means is to allow people not to comply with their contractual obligations. Question is, could that be done? To answer this question, there is a need to determine...

One of the largest Media network ABS-CBN went off-air yesterday night, May 5, after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued a cease and desist order to stop its television and radio operations. The network signed off at 7:52 pm, following the airing of its primetime newscast TV Patrol. But before the media network’s shut down, here’s a timelineof events on how the ABS-CBN lead to its closure. May 5, 2016 During the 2016 elections campaign period, ABS-CBN aired an advertisement showing clips and compilation of Duterte cursing, emitting a controversial rape remark, and saying he is ready to kill. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV paid for the ad,...

Don’t deny it! We all dreamt for a work from home setup before COVID-19 hit and forced us to shift in this kind of system—that light feeling that you can do all your tasks in the comfort of your home. Ugh, truly heaven! We’re all tired of long lines and traffic just to get home, the daily routines at the workplace and the level of stress we endured every day—these are just some few of the many reasons why we wish for this kind of setup until we experienced it for more than a month now and yes, we are...