Business sector suggests suspension of Data Privacy Law

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The business sector has urged the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the policy making body on the government’s COVID-19 and related responses, to temporarily suspend the Data Privacy

Act to avoid the huge expense for contract tracing, a move strongly opposed by the National Privacy Commission calling it “anti-poor” and “bereft of science and ethics.”

But this was strongly opposed NPC Commissioner Raymund E. Liboro. “The call by certain business quarters to suspend the Data Privacy Act to publicly identify Covid positive individuals is bereft of science and ethics,” said Liboro. Respecting patient’s privacy and confidentiality build trust and foster better communication between health professionals and patients. Patients who are assured that their data and identities are secured will cooperate better and provide more accurate information thus resulting in better health care decisions and management .

But the joint letter pressed its point stressing that, “After all, in the interest of saving lives, the government has already taken away many constitutional rights to implement the strict quarantine protocols. “

 

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