To your left, under the aqua-blue font title that reads 

” Cybercrime Law, SC Oral Arguments ” are live tweets; scroll down, below the aqua-blue font; it’s updated every ten minutes. 

Updated: tweets of oral arguments after the next three paragraphs, below:

We interrupt regular programming in this blog (in other words, i temporarily changed the theme to have a sidebar for live tweets, and reformatted the blog) to bring you, live,  via broadband, via Twitter, and via WordPress widget-link to Twitter, the Supreme Court oral arguments on the Cybercrime Law. i surveyed the live tweets of the media organizations and chose the fastest: rappler.com reporter Purple S. Romero, live tweets  to your left.

(and below, a copy)

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It’s a quarter to 7pm, i think the Court is about to adjourn or has adjourned. (wait for the: “…So ordered.”)

Anyway, here’s a copy of the tweets posted live from the same twitter user. Ta-tah!

6:32 PM

Petitioners asked for extension of TRO. Sereno said the Court will note this.

Purple S. Romero @purpleromeropo

Oral arguments done. Solicitor general will present position on Jan.22

6:10 PM

Abad: I have a Facebook [account] also. If I like a post, it appeared on my screen, am I not as guilty as the one who published it?

6:07 PM

Matibag: The overbreadth nature of Sec. 5 makes it unreasonable.

6:05 PM

Matibag: The assailed statute issues a subsequent punishment of excessive fine.

5:59 PM

Julius Matibag tackles Sec. 5(1) which penalizes those who aid or abet the commission of a cybercrime offense

5:49 PM

Sereno: You expect to traverse the highway and not have data of your vehicle collected? Disini: That’s a good point.

5:49 PM

Sereno: You expect to traverse the highway and not data of vehicle collected? Disini: That’s a good point.

5:47 PM

Sereno asks about RFIDs in NLEX, SLEX: Can’t police asks operator of the highway to give plate numbers of vehicles that pass highway

5:46 PM

Disini: Data collected through CCTV devices under Data Privacy Act will be considered protected information.

5:39 PM

Leonen: Everyone can google you. How vulnerable are internet users in the Phil to hacking, phishing?

5:38 PM

Disini: What’s here is a license for the government to collect data anytime they want

5:36 PM

Leonen: Isn’t due cause enough?

5:35 PM

Leonen: Where is the balance for law enforcement on the one hand and use of Internet? The balance is found in traffic data.

5:33 PM

Leonen: The speed of our court system is not as fast as packets of information.

5:31 PM

Leonen: Let us speak about hackers. They will never go to these public sites and introduce themselves.

5:30 PM

Disini: There should be court warrant before surveillance is done

5:29 PM

Reyes: What kind of safeguards would you add to RA 10175 to prevent abuse

5:27 PM

Disini: The ability to collect copious amounts of data is unparalleled.

5:23 PM

Abad compares to the The government can only look at the name of the sender and the addressee, but is not authorized to look at content

5:19 PM

De Castro: Is there any way for the ordinary citizen to know they’re only collecting traffic data and not content data?

5:18 PM

Disini: They can conduct surveillance also on the associate i.e. members of family

5:16 PM

Disini: They can destroy data preventing the filing of a case against them

5:15 PM

De Castro: If doesn’t say here what due cause means, which will allow authorities to collect data

5:15 PM

Cruz: Identity behind the number could be revealed.

5:14 PM

Cruz cites http://Chikka.com, which has online promotions. The type of data collected from this are likely to be accurate.

5:13 PM

Cruz: The State has right to look at traffic data. All we ask is judicial intervention.

5:12 PM

Carpio: They cannot seize that from you without a court warrant.

5:11 PM

Carpio: What this law says is give me your phone bill just blacken your name and address

5:09 PM

Carpio: If you look at the phone bill, the only thing not allowed here in the traffic data is your name and address.

5:09 PM

Carpio: There are 3 types of underlying service in your phone bill: text, call, web use.

5:07 PM

Disini: Respondents in their comment agree that Sec.12 will fail to hurdle the standards of this Honorable Court

5:07 PM

Disini: Without privacy, we are not free.

5:06 PM

Disini: Respondents in their comment agrees that Sec.12 will fail to hurdle the standards of this Honorable Court

5:05 PM

Disini: It will permit collection of traffic and interception of traffic data without a court warrant

5:05 PM

Disini: If Internet service providers will not assist authorities, they may be charged with obstruction of justice

5:04 PM

Disini: Nothing in Sec. 12 states restrictions on how long state officers can look for data, use data.

5:02 PM

Disini: It’s as if there’s a state officer standing behind you watching you surf.

5:02 PM

Disin: Traffic data will yield size of messages, information about incoming and outgoing calls, incoming SMS.

5:01 PM

JJ Disini will now talk about Sec.12 which allows law enforcers to collect traffic data