{"id":30106,"date":"2014-10-31T00:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30106"},"modified":"2014-10-31T00:58:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:58:56","slug":"hearings-on-sim-card-registration-begin-at-house-of-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/31\/hearings-on-sim-card-registration-begin-at-house-of-rep\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearings on SIM card registration begin at House of Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13177\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cellphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13177\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cellphone.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cellphone.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cellphone-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The House of Representatives Committee on Information and Communications Technology held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss a measure which, if implemented, will require mobile phone users to register their SIM cards.<\/p>\n<p>Such a measure has been proposed in order to put an end to scams and criminal activity perpetrated via text messages, as well as harassing messages sent via SMS; and in order to aid law enforcers to trace such crimes or cases of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairman and Rizal Rep. Joey Roy Duavit said this was the period for debating the merits of the bill and proposing amendments; such as how to avoid passing to the user the cost of registering their SIM card.<\/p>\n<p>At Wednesday&#8217;s hearing, representatives from two major telecommunications firms said that their respective companies are ready to cooperate with the proposed measure, noting, as well, that their websites give subscribers a chance to report spam or scam messages<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that if SIM registration is enacted, the incidences of text scams will be significantly reduced; as will the use of cellphones for criminal activity such as kidnapping, or bomb threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives Committee on Information and Communications Technology held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss a measure which, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[8417,8416],"class_list":["post-30106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-cell-phones","tag-sim-card-registration","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106","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=30106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}