An unofficial, cross-referenced library of the issuances, advisory opinions, decisions, resolutions, and orders of the National Privacy Commission (Philippines). Full texts are cleaned extractions of the official PDFs, linked to one another so citations can be followed across documents. See About this wiki for sources and caveats.
Start here
Cornerstone documents that most other material builds on:
- Data Privacy Act of 2012 — the statute everything else interprets
- Implementing Rules and Regulations of the DPA — the first layer of operational detail
- 2021 Rules of Procedure, as amended (2024) — how complaints and cases move through the Commission
- Guidelines on Consent — when consent is (and is not) the right lawful basis
- AI Guidelines (2024) — applying the DPA to artificial intelligence systems processing personal data
Browse
- Issuances — 66 circulars, advisories, guidelines, and rules, by year
- Advisory opinions — 393 responses to written requests for guidance
- Decisions — 101 rulings in complaints and other cases
- Resolutions — 147 dispositions of motions and interlocutory matters
- Orders — 73 directives, including breach-related and cease-and-desist orders
- Laws — 2 statutory foundations (the DPA and its IRR)
- Issuances by type — the same issuances grouped by document type
Recently issued
- Grant of Additional Period to Submit Annual Security Incident Reports for the Year 2025 (2026-09-08)
- Clarification on the Submission of Personal Data Breach Notification through Data Breach Notification Management System (2026-05-11)
- Guidelines on Data Scraping of Publicly Available Personal Data (2026-04-13)
- Guidelines On Privacy Engineering In Systems Life Cycle Processes (2025-08-27)
- Clarification on Certain Provisions of NPC Circular No. 2020-03 on Data Sharing Agreements (2025-06-26)
Most referenced
The documents other pages in this wiki cite most often:
- Personal Data Breach Management (4 backlinks)
- Registration of Data Processing Systems and Notifications Regarding Automated Decision-Making (3 backlinks)
- Guidelines on Consent (3 backlinks)
- GUIDELINES ON ADMINISTRATIVE FINES (3 backlinks)
- Data Subject Rights (3 backlinks)
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- Topics — thematic groupings across all document types
- Official advisory-opinion tags — exact PDF-assigned keywords, consolidated for browsing
- Reference map — which documents cite which, and how often
Official source index: https://privacy.gov.ph/pips-and-pics/advisories-circulars/
Manual Notes
This is an unofficial reference library. Texts are cleaned extractions of official PDFs, and raw extraction notes are not published on the public site. Cross-references and topic pages are early-stage finding aids, not exhaustive research maps — see About this wiki for sources and caveats.