Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday, February 7 urged the government to act with dispatch on the rising pregnancies among very young girls and teenagers, noting that majority of the registered adolescent live births involved men who are older than the girls. Citing data from the Philippine Statistics...
PLDT Inc. & Smart Communications Inc. blocked over 17 billion attempts to open malicious sites by the end of 2022, the telcos reported Friday, January 13. "We are working 24/7 to block scams and fraudulent messages, as well as mobile accounts being used in criminal activities,” says Angel...
PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) blocked more than 522,000 URLs that show child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), as of end-November 2022. Overall, "We have prevented more than 1.3 billion attempts to open child abuse content,” according to Angel Redoble, FVP and Chief Information...
As the Philippines joins in the celebration of World Children’s Day on Sunday, November 20, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian urged the government to sustain the momentum of its crackdown on online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC). Gatchalian said the government is now better equipped...
The conviction of Peter Gerard Scully, an Australian sex offender, along with his cohorts, is a victory for the many child victims and victim-survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation, Senator Risa Hontiveros said. “We also laud our brave law enforcers who first captured Scully and his...
PLDT and Smart Communications, Inc. continue to clamp down on the spread of child abuse materials (CSAM) online, blocking almost 250,000 attempts to open links known to contain CSAM last month. This followed a decrease in the number of blocked attempts to access these materials in the second...
The Globe Telecom Inc. Group lauds the new law against the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) as a victory for child rights. The group has long been campaigning for online child safety, and championing private sector participation in shielding children from the dangers they...
“As a mother and as a legislator, my commitment is to ensure online safety for all our children.” Tingog Party-list Rep. Yedda Romualdez (FILE PHOTO) Thus, said Tingog Party-list Rep. Yedda Romualdez said, as she called for the urgent implementation of the recently-lapsed-into-law Anti-Online...
"A huge win for child rights advocates and victims of abuse." (Unsplash) That's how Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas described the lapsing into law of the bill on the Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC). The bill has already lapsed into law on Friday, July 29, 2022,...
Facebook's Meta and Philippine law enforcers on Wednesday, July 27, agreed to fight against online abuse and exploitation of children by immediately taking down exploitative online content. This came after Meta, the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) met...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, July 19 renewed her call for the signing into law of the Anti-Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) Law as she discovers more Facebook groups that are created to prey on children. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB) As a mother, Hontiveros...
The government recently opened a state-of-the-art Digital Forensics Platform and Laboratory (DFPAL) in Quezon City to fight cybercrimes, particularly, Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC). “Children became more vulnerable to cyberattacks after the pandemic forced them to stay...
