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Compliance Guide to the Data Privacy Act

Philippine companies are given until March 8, 2018 to fully comply with the second and final phase of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act or Republic Act No. 10173 or face sanctions and penalties which range from one to six years imprisonment, and a fine of not less than Php 500,000 and not more than Php 5 million, depending on the violation.  Non-compliance of businesses can also lead to being issued an order to stop processing transactions, being ordered to pay damages to data subjects whose rights were violated and jailtime for accountable officers.

To help validate your organizations’ action plan on this, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching its pioneering seminar entitled, "Compliance and Implementation Best Practices to the Data Privacy Act", scheduled on Friday, February 9, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. 

Private and government organizations will find this very useful to benchmark and find out if they are on the right track on the compliance to this law. Business owners, board directors, the management and employees including chief information officers, data controllers and processors must have a complete understanding of its implementation.

This will feature Atty. Rose Marie M. King-Dominguez, partner at the largest law firm in the country, Sycip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan.  She specializes in media and telecoms among many others. She advises clients in a variety of industries on privacy and data protection issues, matters involving employee data policies, BYOD, offshore storage, use of data in customer agreements and privacy policies and terms and conditions on sites. 

The second lecturer will be Mr. Angel T. Redoble who is presently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of e-PLDT.  He has over 20 years of local and international experience as an IT practitioner with extensive expertise in cyber security, cyber warfare and digital weaponry, cyber terrorism, digital forensic, vulnerability assessment, ransomware investigation, penetration testing, ISMS, ISO 27001 and PCS DSS compliance audits, SOX compliance review, and enterprise security risk assessment.

Interested participants are encouraged to avail of the early payment savings and group discount for 3 or more participants.  Seats are limited and pre-registration is required.

CGBP will also host other seminars and trainings on compliance and updates on different Philippine Laws and regulations:


(Website is updated bi-weekly)

For details and a complete list of best practices seminars, you may log on to www.cgbp.org or call (+63 2) 842-7148/ 59 and 556-8968/ 69, Cebu lines: (+63 32) 512-3106 or 07, Baguio line: (+63 74) 423-5148 or Legazpi line: (+63 52) 736-0148.

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