Anyone who uses the internet knows, or should know by now, the trick known as phishing, which refers to ways of acquiring sensitive account access information such as passwords. It could be an email purportedly from yahoo or the administrator asking you to reconfirm and enter your username/password so the account won’t be deleted. Those [...]

In a first for the Philippines, the Supreme Court today provided a live webcast or video streaming in its website (sc.judiciary.gov.ph) of a pending case. The live coverage is for the “Maguindanao Massacre cases“. The SC earlier issued the guidelines applicable only (pro hac vice) to the live broadcasting by radio and television of the [...]

The good news: companies who would want to further strengthen their brands could have the company or brand name as generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), which currently stands at 22 and includes .com, .net, .org, .gov, .edu, .mil, .biz, .coop, among others. That means that the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company could have .pldt, instead [...]

A former law school classmate sent a text message an hour ago, referring to me as “Atty. Fred Ramos“. He recognized me in Jessica Soho’s State of the Nation (SONA) but with “Fred Ramos” as label. I haven’t changed my name. It’s still Fred Pamaos, although this is not the first time that my name [...]

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) receives an average of 5 complaints relating to cybercrimes. That’s the daily average. This much I learned during our live discussion (video below) in On Call‘s pilot episode at News TV Channel 11 (hosted by Ivan Mayrina and Connie Sison; weekdays 4-5 pm).

A fax or facsimile machine, while not readily embraced by everybody unlike the ubiquitous cellphone, is a routine part of transactions, especially in business. Many people are still uncomfortable in operating a fax machine. Why would one pay attention to a fax machine other than learning how to insert the paper, enter the recipient’s number [...]

Does the law on libel cover the internet? This issue persists because there are varied opinions and there’s no definitive ruling made by the Supreme Court. None yet, anyway, because the Supreme Court can only decide cases that reach its doors. Until that day comes, let’s continue the lively discussion on internet libel.

We see the explosion of e-groups, blogs, message boards and other fora wherein people share facts, views and opinions in cyberspace. If we consider the huge amount of content written by and about almost everyone in the internet, it is only logical to expect the increasing number of libel cases filed against bloggers.

Law blogs, referred to as “blawgs” by some, are being cited in court decisions in the U.S. (to the cyber-challenged, the term “blog” is a contraction of the words “web log”). As reflected in a collection of court cases that cite legal blogs, there are 32 citations of legal blogs from 27 different cases in [...]

A recent comment caught my attention because it was written in ALL CAPS (or everything was in capital letters). This, in internet language, is equivalent to shouting and unless this is made in the proper context, it’s definitely rude and offensive. This is just an illustration of internet etiquette that we should be mindful of. [...]