Summary
RMO No. 1-2020, issued January 15, 2020, promulgates the Data Privacy Manual of the BIR on personal data protection and security under the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
Key points
- What the Manual does. It sets policies and guidelines for personal data protection and security. It also informs data users of the rights of data subjects.
- Scope of protected information. The Act extends and expands the Bureau’s mandate to secure personal, sensitive personal and privileged information, and business information of individual taxpayers, already collected or still to be collected in performing official functions.
- Governing principles. Information must be collected, processed and secured following the general data privacy principles of transparency, legitimate purpose and proportionality.
Who is affected
- BIR data users
- Data subjects
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