The Manila Times · General

The law can’t catch up with tech

· By Raymond Gregory Tribdino
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WHEN the Anti-Wiretapping Act was enacted in 1965, lawmakers aimed to regulate physical telephone taps. Decades later, courts struggle to apply that same statute to encrypted messaging, VoIP calls, and generative voice synthesis. A similar structural disconnect now defines the legislative push to protect children on…

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