local government

Question 1

• Also known as Electronic Commerce Act
• signed into law by President Joseph E. Estrada on June 14, 2000
• Act providing for the recognition and use of electronic commercial and non-commercial transactions and documents.
• It is the practice of buying and selling goods and services through online consumer
  services on the internet. In such transactions the products and services are sold
  through an electronic medium, without any using paper documents.

Answer 1

E – COMMERCE ACT OF 2000 (RA 8792)

Question 2

• passed on Oct. 13, 2008 and signed on November 17, 2009 by
  President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
• The vital role of the youth in nation building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, psychological and social well-being.
• Child Pornography refers to any representation, whether visual, audio, or written combination thereof, by electronic, mechanical, digital, optical, magnetic, or any other means of child engaged or involved in real or simulated explicit sexual activities.

Answer 2

ANTI – CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ACT OF 2009 (RA 9775)

Question 3

• This act was passed on Nov. 18-Dec.1, 2009 and signed on February 15, 2010 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
• The state values the dignity and privacy of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights. Toward this end, the state shall penalize acts that would destroy the honor, dignity and integrity of a person.
• This law is geared towards the prohibition of taking photo or video coverage of a person or group of persons performing sexual act or any similar activity or to capture an image of the private area of a person/s such as the naked or undergarment clad genitals public area, buttocks or female breast without the consent of the person/s involved and under circumstances in which the person/s has/have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Answer 3

ANTI – PHOTO AND VIDEO VOYEURISM ACT OF 2009 (RA 9995)

Question 4

practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.

Answer 4

VOYUERISM

Question 5

• It is the policy of the state to protect the fundamental human rights of privacy, of communication while ensuring free flow of information to promote innovation and growth.
• The state recognizes the vital role of information and communication technology in nation-building and its inherent obligation to ensure that personal information in information and communications systems in the government and in the private sector are secured and protected.
• It is a law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive. It is meant to cover both natural and juridical persons involved in the processing of personal information.

Answer 5

DATA RPIVACY ACT OF 2012 (RA 10173)

Question 6

• It was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III on September 12, 2012
• The state recognized the vital role of information and communication industries such as content production, telecommunications, broadcasting, electronic commerce, and data processing, in the nation’s overall social and economic development.
• The state also recognizes the importance of providing an environment conducive to the development, acceleration, and rational application and exploitation of information and communication technology (ICT) to attain free, easy, and intelligible access to exchange and/or delivery of information; and the need to protect and safeguard the integrity of computer, computer and communications systems, networks, databases, and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and data stored therein, from all misuse, abuse, and illegal access by making punishable under the law such conduct or conducts.
• This law punishes content-related offenses such as cybersex, child pornography, and libel which may be committed through a computer system. It also penalizes unsolicited commercial communication or content that advertises or sells products or services.

Answer 6

CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2012 (RA 10175)

Question 7

• The Republic Act 9208 was amended through RA 10364
• It was signed into law by President Benigno S. Aquino III on February 6, 2013
• It is an Act to institute policies to eliminate trafficking in persons especially women and children, establishing the necessary institutional mechanisms for the protection and support of trafficked persons, providing penalties for its violations and for other purposes.
• It is hereby declared that the state values the dignity of every human person and guarantees the respect of individual rights. In pursuit to this policy, the state shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures and development of programs that will promote human dignity, protect the people from any threat of violence and exploitation, eliminate trafficking in persons, and mitigate pressures for involuntary migration and servitude of persons, not only to support trafficked persons but more importantly, to ensure their recovery, rehabilitation and integration into the mainstream of society

Answer 7

EXPANDED ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT OF 2012 (RA 10364)

Question 8

refers to the recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing, offering, transportation, transfer, maintaining, harboring, or receipt of persons with or without the victim’s consent and knowledge, within or across national borders by means of threat, or use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or, the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for the purpose of exploitation which includes at a minimum, the exploitation or the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery, servitude or the removal or sale of organs

Answer 8

TRAFFICKING PERSON