A petition was filed on Monday before the Supreme Court (SC) seeking to declare unconstitutional Republic Act No. 11934, or the SIM Registration Act, on the ground that it violates the basic constitutional rights of SIM card users. Know more:
A PETITION was filed on Monday before the Supreme Court seeking to declare unconstitutional Republic Act No. 11934, or the SIM Registration Act, on the ground that it violates the basic constitutional rights of SIM card users.
The petitioners also urged the Court to order public telecommunication entities to cease and desist from using, storing, transferring, and processing all information gathered into the SIM register and to destroy data already gathered. “By imposing a condition to speech expressed through the modern-day equivalent of the printing press, the SIM Registration Act imposes prior restraint,” it added.
Thus, 63.21 percent or 106,807,505 SIM cards will be deactivated and their users will be permanently silenced when the April 26 deadline comes. “Unregistered Filipinos will not be able to use internet services, websites, and social media platforms that require phone numbers as a mode of receiving one-time passwords to secure or recover user accounts,” the petitioners explained.
“Filipinos’ objective expectation of privacy over their cell phones and SIM cards, learned and committed to heart because of fears of spams, scams, and surveillance, both from government and corporations, have taught us to hesitate before sharing, to vet before registering, and to adopt and update security measures whenever possible,” they added.
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