The NBI was pushing for 1 social media account per person and SIM card registration to prevent online scams.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was pushing for one social media account per person and SIM card registration to prevent online scams.
NBI-Cybercrime Division chief Victor Lorenzo said that different measures must be passed in order to address the current challenges in solving cybercrimes.
Lorenzo was also seeking the passage of a law that would mandate one social media account per person in the Philippines in order to prevent online scams, which tremendously increased as most transactions were done through the internet amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, Lorenzo said that the proposed measure requiring the registration of prepaid SIM (subscriber identity module) cards must already be passed. One News reported that the bills regarding the said matter were pending before the Senate and House of Representatives.
It was last June when Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said that there should be a “one person, one Facebook account” policy in order to stop online trolling especially during the upcoming 2022 elections.
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Lorenzo explained that it would be a big help if there’s a law on one person, one social media account, adding that another big help would be the “SIM Card Registration Act”.
He also said that the national ID system can also help authorities in going after cybercrime suspects, as well as if internet and telephone providers would shift to the latest IP (internet protocol) version — the IPv6 — from the current IPv4 version. Lorenzo added that there should be one IP address per person as well.
Lorenzo noted that cybercrimes such as online scams and identity theft proliferated during the coronavirus pandemic when most people do business online.
He told “Agenda” on One News that traditional crimes went down but cybercrime cases have doubled. Lorenzo also admitted that the National Bureau of Investigation had a hard time tracking down perpetrators of cybercrime acts all at once as the agency lacked the equipment and cases were piling up.
Moreover, Lorenzo said that the proportion between the number of law enforcers and the people using electronic devices and computers was lopsided — to the detriment of the victims.
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