Following the sudden demise of National Power Corporation (NPC) President and CEO Pio J. Benavidez, the state-run firm has named Atty Melchor Paz Ridulme as officer-in-charge. Ridulme is currently NPC’s vice president and legal counsel; and his assumption of the OIC post will be until such time...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will press charges against two mayors in Luzon in connection with the operation of illegal open dumpsites. (File photo / Office of DENR Undersecretary Benny Antiporda) DENR Undersecretary Benny Antiporda identified the two mayors as Mayor...
State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) will deploy four new solar photovoltaic (PV) and diesel hybrid systems to meet the electricity needs of its customers in off-grid areas, as served by its Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) unit. As noted by NPC President and CEO Pio J. Benavidez, the...
State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) is seeking regulatory approval on the pass-on of P7.562 billion worth of under-recoveries on universal charge for missionary electrification (UCME), or that subsidy component being passed on to all ratepayers to fund energization of off-grid and far flung...
Another government agency, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) denounces in the strongest terms any act of unjust profiling of community pantry organizers and expresses grave concern the statement of police authorities likening the selfless act of an organizer to that of satan’s. In a strongly...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) Tuesday, ( April 20 ) called the Philippine National Police (PNP) Data Protection Office to look into alleged profiling of Community Pantry organizers and take appropriate measures to prevent any doings of its personnel on the ground that could potentially harm...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is urging local government authorities to practice transparency with responsibility when posting the identities of the financial beneficiaries of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) on social media. “We understand that using social media platforms is a...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said it is currently validating information that over 879,699 Facebook accounts of Filipino netizens that are allegedly compromised as part of the large-scale breach affecting 533 million global users in the social media platform. In a statement, NPC was...
Law enforcement or investigative agencies of the government have no blanket authority to access or use the information of private individuals under custody of another agency, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said. The privacy watchdog issued this statement following the controversy on...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said its initial findings showed data breach on cash-loaning application Cashalo where a certain user was found selling personal information of 3.3 million users. NPC said this following its preliminary probe on the data security issue of Cashalo, which is...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has recommended the prosecution of Fynamics Lending Inc., the operator of the PondoPeso online lending application which has reportedly been harassing and public-shaming delinquent borrowers, for violating the data privacy law. In a 40-page decision, the...
Former employees of state-run National Power Corporation (NPC) who were retrenched due to its privatization roughly two decades ago will finally get their back wages, as underpinned by a Supreme Court ruling on the Drivers and Mechanics Association (DAMA) case; that was also subsequently affirmed...
