CCPC: Data Privacy Act as a rule doesn’t apply to information processed for journalism. Thus, the arrest of an Iriga City reporter by the police comes out as an overreach and invasive.
The reporter, Jose Rizal Pajares of Radyo Natin, is detained by the Iriga City police for days for merely scanning a police blotter in search for something to report about
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LEGAZPI CITY: The Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP)-Camarines Sur chapter and local media organizations strongly condemned what they call unwarranted actions taken by the police against media practitioner Jose Rizal Joeriz Pajares for browsing through a police blotter book at the Iriga City Police Station.