2016

The Philippine 's Data Privacy Act of 2012 mandated the creation of the National Privacy Commission to implement, enforce and monitor compliance with the Act and soon after its finalization, issued draft implementing rules and regulations, which will significantly impact business in the Philippines and on the IT and business process outsourcing industry. Features of the IRRs include: The scope of protected information, data protection principles, data sharing, data protection officers, outsourcing of data processing activities, security measures, mandatory breach notification, penalties, and data subject rights.

"Paper containing personal information must be shredded into small pieces and not dumped in unsecured dumpsters. Similarly, personal data stored on electronic media such as computer hard disks, USB drives or DVDs must be wiped clean using specialised software to avoid accidental data leak. The clarifications, contained in new advisory guidelines issued to organisations, have come from Singapore's privacy watchdog. The Commission said organisations should build up the habit of shredding documents among employees. It also recommended industrial shredders with cross-cutting capability, allowing paper to be sliced in at least two different directions. This creates small individual pieces of paper that are harder to reassemble.

The Commission also addressed in detail the risk of becoming a target for ""dumpster diving"" or theft, saying documents being sent for destruction should not be kept in unsecured boxes or containers. Organisations that fail to protect consumers' personal data can be fined up to $1 million per breach."

Foreign sailors seeking to work for South Korean ships may be required to submit their criminal records while their South Korean captains and colleagues will be required to undergo anti-racism education, the government said.

The measures are largely aimed at preventing on-board crimes. They follow the recent alleged homicide of a South Korean captain and an engineer aboard a South Korean fishing boat by two Vietnamese fishermen. Under the government measures, approved at a Cabinet meeting, all new foreign sailors seeking to work on a South Korean ship must submit a criminal background check. Indictments in previous crimes may not directly prevent employment, but they may provide some reference to South Korean employers when deciding whether to hire a foreign sailor, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said in a press release.