PCC, NPC eye info sharing deal
Credit to Author: TYRONE JASPER C. PIAD| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:07:00 +0000
An information sharing agreement is being hatched by the country’s competition and privacy watchdogs.
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) is looking to partner with the National Privacy Commission (NPC) to gain access to information that could be useful in its operations, PCC Chairman Arsenio Balisacan said.
“In the competition law, we have strict provisions and confidentiality [wherein] we just can not talk about public transactions, details of transactions that might impact the firms,” he told reporters in an interview.
With this, Balisacan said the PCC was studying how the information sharing could be executed without violating privacy laws.
“There will be some ways to access some data that would help us … for coming transactions. We have to sit down and understand how they look at this issue, data sharing, information sharing,” he added.
While there is no official memorandum of agreement (MoU) yet, NPC Chairperson Raymund Liboro told The Manila Times that both parties already had a “meeting of the minds.”
“We will look into possible areas of cooperation and collaboration in the pursuit of our functions,” he added.
Liboro said it was imperative for privacy and competition authorities to collaborate, especially now that data plays an integral role in most of the services a company is offering.
“In the case of Uber-Grab, the matter of personal data and disposition of personal data became also central issue in that matter,” Liboro cited.
Meanwhile, the PCC will soon ink a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for information sharing and cooperation to strengthen its enforcement of competition law.
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