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
