{"id":213931,"date":"2019-05-12T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=213931"},"modified":"2019-05-12T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T08:59:15","slug":"npc-probing-possible-voters-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/12\/npc-probing-possible-voters-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC probing possible voters&#8217; data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144066\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Privacy-Commissioner-and-Chairman-Raymund-Enriquez-Liboro-said..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144066\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Privacy-Commissioner-and-Chairman-Raymund-Enriquez-Liboro-said..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Privacy-Commissioner-and-Chairman-Raymund-Enriquez-Liboro-said..jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Privacy-Commissioner-and-Chairman-Raymund-Enriquez-Liboro-said.-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Privacy-Commissioner-and-Chairman-Raymund-Enriquez-Liboro-said.-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cConcerns were raised over the possibility that these candidates may be processing voter personal data without authority,\u201d he added. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/privacy.gov.ph\/photos\/a.2029477694001983.1073741848.1755561324726956\/2029478487335237\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/privacy.gov.ph\/\">National Privacy Commission\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is looking into social media reports alleging that some candidates running for the midterm elections were able to access personal information of voters without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to our attention that some individuals posted on social media about receiving from candidate\/s a \u201cprecinct locator\u201d or \u201cvoter\u2019s information\u201d card, printed with their personal data \u2013 name, complete residential address, date of birth, among others,\u201d said Privacy Commissioner Raymund Liboro in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcerns were raised over the possibility that these candidates may be processing voter personal data without authority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The NPC seeks to determine how these candidates were able to access voters&#8217; data and whether the processing of election-related information was in compliance with the standards of the Data Privacy Act (DPA).<\/p>\n<p>Liboro reminded political parties and candidates that they must uphold the data subject rights of voters at all times in line with their capacity as personal information controllers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have the obligation to ensure that all personal data processing related to any of their partisan political activity satisfy the criteria for lawful processing as provided for in the DPA,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to uphold data subject rights in processing voter information may subject political parties and candidates to penalties for possible violations of the data privacy law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is looking into social media reports alleging that some candidates running for the midterm &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":144066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-aerol-john-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213933,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213931\/revisions\/213933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}