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DoJ task force to deal with cybersecurity, cybercrime
August 31, 2007
Updated 17:29:07 (Mla time)
Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
MAKATI CITY, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DoJ) has created a task force that will deal with cybersecurity issues in legislation and investigation.
The group will pursue the e-government agenda, institutionalize a cybersecurity regime and implement laws, according to State […]

E-courts pushed for cybercrimes
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 03:25pm (Mla time) 09/03/2007
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DoJ) will push for the creation of at least three e-courts soon, the chairman of a newly created task force on cybercrime and cybersecurity told INQUIRER.net.
The e-courts will oversee all cases that deal with high-tech cases of hacking […]

In more than one conversation, we hear the emphatic statement that Filipinos are a creative lot and hardworking too. “Magaling” in the colloquial. The Filipino worker is held up as a model employee. Why, even Filipino nannies are the preferred choice anywhere in the world. If only we are provided with the right incentive or […]

Charles was a fresh graduate from one of the universities downtown when he got himself a secondhand
surplus car. Shortly after, he read in the news that cars of such nature, though duly registered with the
Land Transportation Office, were in technical breach of the law because of failure to pay Customs duties
and taxes. In other words, […]

Heads up people—there is hope in this country and we look to the one man who is leading the way. Justice Reynato S. Puno, the 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was delayed a year in his assumption to the highest judicial post in the land. As the first among equals, he heads the […]

Normally, we hear of medical missions, food missions and in general humanitarian ones. Medical missions range from tooth extraction to cataract removal or similar types of out-patient procedure. Food missions include grocery baskets, sacks of rise and instant noodles. Relief goods cover old clothes to specific requests for tents or cement. But legal missions?

Every Filipino has the right to serve his country. No doubt about it. I will fight for this principle until I draw my last breath. Every Filipino too has the obligation to serve his country – no matter what capacity, regardless of status. This imperative I will continue to push until the very end.
Certainly, actors […]

What is this initiative again calling for the creation of special courts as a solution to the political killings? I have said it before and will it repeat it till kingdom come: creating special courts by itself will not do much to help address the basic problem of crime. It is a band-aid at best […]