Even the most ardent supporters of the country’s new anti-cybercrime law had doubts with the latest provisions that have left many netizens in rage.
Republic Act 10175 or better known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act was welcomed by the Business Process Outsourcing Industry of the country with high hopes. However, the latest provisions of the law have made the law itself questionable.
The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP), which represents the $11 billion Philippine call center industry, has expressed its reservations about the recent provisions.
BPAP posted on its website the potentials of the provisions to restrict freedom of speech and how private sector stakeholders were not consulted before carrying out the action. BPAP has concluded that these provisions were inserted without even considering the perspective of private sector stakeholders like them.
BPAP is specifically concerned with the warrantless collection of traffic data. This means that the government can collect data from any company at any time and circumstance, all done for the surveillance of any malicious content that would lead to cyber crime.
Since their companies cannot have full security for their data and privacy, the investors might lose confidence in the quality of outsourcing Philippines is known to be quite reliable in.
On the other hand, the President said that he would not let the provision of online libel be removed and instead he should enforce the law, or else he will be impeached for delinquency of his responsibility.
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, who chairs the Senate committee on constitutional amendments and law revisions, expects that the Court would reject the law due to its violation of using “overbroad and too vague” language.
BPAP will wait for the Court’s decision on the matter, despite their reservations about the provisions.
BPAP’s President and CEO Benedict Hernandez said that the cybercrime law was drafted and approved for the reason of promoting industries that rely on the technology of Internet, such as the BPO industry. He believes that the industry was meant to benefit from the law, especially in safe guarding the users’ data from anonymous data collectors and prevent cybercrimes and computer-related offenses.
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Publish on 03/11/2013
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