The lead author of the SIM registration law now being challenged in the Supreme Court (SC) is deferring to the wisdom of the tribunal, even as she reiterated the need for the law to fight rising incidence of cybercrime.
The lead author of the SIM registration law now being challenged in the Supreme Court is deferring to the wisdom of the tribunal, even as she reiterated the need for the law to fight rising incidence of cybercrime.
Moreover, the senator stressed the enabling legislation passed by Congress “instituted adequate law with safeguards that will vouch for consumers’ right to privacy while ensuring a safe and secure mobile use.” In its 59-page petition, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and several other individuals also sought the “immediate issuance of a temporary restraining order [TRO] and/or a writ of preliminary injunction enjoining the implementation of the law pending the resolution of the petition.”
In assailing the law, the petitioners denounced it as “unconstitutional as it violates the right to freedom of speech by imposing a system of prior restraint; right against unreasonable searches and seizures and to privacy of communication by intruding into the petitioners’ reasonable expectation of privacy and circumventing the requirement of a judicial warrant; and substantive due process by intruding into the life, liberty, and property of petitioners.
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