Philippine lending app could be test case for criminal prosecution of data privacy violations
By Jet Damazo-Santos ( February 19, 2021, 07:30 GMT | Insight) -- The criminal provisions of the Philippines’ 2012 data privacy law could be tested soon, as the first company involved in the hundreds of online-lending app complaints received in 2018 and 2019 has now been forwarded to the justice department for prosecution. Fynamics Lending, the operator of the PondoPeso, is one of the three companies charged with unauthorized data processing by the National Privacy Commission in 2019. The criminal provisions of the Philippines’ 2012 data privacy law could be tested soon, as the first company involved in the hundreds of online-lending app complaints received in 2018 and 2019 has now been forwarded to the justice department for prosecution....
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