{"id":2412,"date":"2014-02-18T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-02-18T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:03:05","slug":"philippine-supreme-court-says-online-snooping-illegal-but-libel-on-the-internet-punishable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/18\/philippine-supreme-court-says-online-snooping-illegal-but-libel-on-the-internet-punishable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Supreme Court says online snooping illegal but libel on the Internet punishable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_111067085.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2408\" alt=\"shutterstock_111067085\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_111067085-300x201.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_111067085-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_111067085.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The Philippines Supreme Court has ruled that online surveillance by authorities is illegal without a court order, but it upheld libel as criminal offence in a cybercrime law that will now be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The law was passed in 2012 but suspended shortly after that. The court ruled Tuesday on petitions in which opponents argued the law is unconstitutional and restricts freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Court spokesman Theodore Te says judges found only parts of the law are unconstitutional, such as provisions allowing real-time collection of online data by authorities and the shutting down of a website without due process. Libel online remains a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>The law aims to combat Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft, cybersex and online child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents are considering asking the court to reconsider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The Philippines Supreme Court has ruled that online surveillance by authorities is illegal without a court order, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[344,343],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ph","tag-cybercrime","tag-philippines","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","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=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}