MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked Facebook to take down over a hundred of dummy accounts bearing the names of students and alumni of several universities across the
“We have informed Facebook about this so that these could be taken down, but more importantly to preserve the data, whether we are talking about subscriber data, traffic data or content data of these accounts,” Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said on Monday.
The Department of National Defense and the anticybercrime unit of the Philippine National Police are conducting separate probes. “They cannot take away our identity. They cannot take away our resistance. What they’ve done is unite us more,” Hontiveros said. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said: “If he has the evidence, he should file the corresponding charge. But in a time of pandemic, he should avoid jumping to conclusions without any evidence.”
Among other provisions, the bill allows authorities to arrest and detain people on suspicion of being a terrorist for 14 days, extendible by another 10 days. It removes the safeguard in the earlier law that penalizes erring officers with a P500,000 per day fine for each day someone spends in wrongful detention.
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