PSA-7 ensures data security measures for 2024 census collection

Shannah Rose Pardo 07/07/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The officials of the Philippine Statistics Authority in Central Visayas (PSA-7) assured that they have taken data security measures for the collection of census information this year. Chief statistical specialist Leopoldo Alfanta Jr.…

PSA-7 urges researchers: Visit our Cebu data enclave hub

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 05/19/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Good news for researchers in Central Visayas needing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The PSA-7 is informing researchers about their Data Enclave Facility at the Regional Statistical Services Office (RSSO) on…

Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read

Reuters 07/02/2023

Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday. Verified accounts were…

Data centers as the third arena

Manuel L. Quezon III - @inquirerdotnet 05/17/2023

As Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger puts it, microchips are the new oil—and will be more important than oil and gas over the next five decades. Because of this, the core national interest of the United States is…

Archival seeks ‘updated’ online data on COVID-19 infection and vaccination rate

Wenilyn Sabalo 05/12/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council has requested the Cebu City Health Department (CHD) to upgrade its online information services regarding COVID-19. The council, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, approved the resolution that Councilor Nestor…

Over 1 million records from NBI, PNP, other agencies leaked in huge data breach

Sofia Abrogar - @inquirerdotnet 04/19/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 1,279,437 records from law enforcement agencies, including police employee records, were left exposed in a massive data breach, according to a report published by cybersecurity research firm VPNMentor on Tuesday. The…

4,444 new cases bring PH COVID-19 tally to 143,749

Katrina Hallare - Reporter / @KHallareINQ 08/12/2020

MANILA, Philippines — An additional 4,444 patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) shot up the Philippines’ caseload to 143,749, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday. The latest data from the DOH showed that of the…

DOH-7 tells LGUs: Use raw data for contact tracing only, not for announcements

Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/06/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — While discrepancies continue between government offices’ data on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the Central Visayas, the Department of Health in Central Visayas’ (DOH-7) called on local government units (LGUs) to…

Signal users can now securely transfer their data from one device to another

06/11/2020

Signal, the high-fidelity private messaging application, announced on Tuesday that a new feature has been added to the service which allows encrypted data from one iOS device to be securely transferred to another one. Because the private…

PJ Lhuillier group admits data breach on its pawnshop email server

Irene R. Sino Cruz 01/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Some personal identity information of around hundreds of thousands of Cebuana Lhuillier clients has been stolen. This is revealed in a statement issued by the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, the mother company…

Data breach hits Cebuana Lhuillier, around 900k clients affected

Inquirer.net 01/19/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Data of some 900,000 Cebuana Lhuillier clients was compromised after the company admitted on Saturday that one of its email servers was affected by a data breach. According to the company, the data breach…

Lawsuit adds to Facebook woes on data protection

AFP 12/20/2018

FACEBOOK’s woes mounted Wednesday as it faced a lawsuit alleging privacy violations related to data leaked to a consultancy working on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and as a new report suggested it shared more data with partners…

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