WITHOUT the SIM Card registration law, Filipinos will continue to experience fraud, scams, threats, unwanted messages, cybercrimes, and terrorism, a deputy speaker warned at the weekend, even as he blamed a last-minute insertion of a provision on social media for scuttling the badly-needed measure via a Palace veto.
“Though equally important, that provision should have been studied further and filed as a separate bill,” he added. He noted that 155 countries have adopted the registration of SIM Cards and even the telcos in the Philippines are supportive of the push for mandatory SIM card registration. Earlier, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said the part that spurred the veto— the inclusion of social media account registration — may indeed be violative of the Constitution.
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