Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
FORMER Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Andres Bautista is not yet off the hook as the Court of Appeals (CA) stood pat on its ruling upholding the findings of the National Privacy Commission (NPC) that he violated Republic Act 10173 or the "Data Privacy Act of 2012" in connection with the April 2016 data breach that placed the personal information of millions of voters at risk.
The NPC recommended prosecuting Bautista for the crime of accessing sensitive personal information as it also urged the Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate him for possible violation of the Anti-cybercrime Law "on the finding that there was an unauthorized exfiltration of data in connection with this data breach from the Comelec web server on March 23, 2016, through a computer with an IP address of 202.90.136.202, registered with the National Bureau of Investigation."
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