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Philippine privacy regulator defends authority to impose administrative fines

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 27 May 2021 23:11
  • 27 May 2021 23:11
The Philippine privacy regulator maintains it has the implied authority to impose financial penalties on erring entities, after questions were raised in the wake of its release of a draft circular on administrative fines last month.
“We understand where a lot of you are coming from. And the commission was

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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