Duterte rejects bill requiring SIM card, social media account registration

Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said President Rodrigo Duterte rejected the measure over the inclusion of social media in the measure, “without providing proper guidelines and definitions thereto.”

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MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed the bill requiring SIM cards and social media accounts to be registered over concerns that this will “give rise to a situation of dangerous state intrusion and surveillance.”

Acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said Friday in a statement that Duterte rejected the measure over the inclusion of social media in the measure, “without providing proper guidelines and definitions thereto.”

The provision requiring social media networks to compel their users to provide their real name and phone numbers when creating accounts was inserted by lawmakers during the bicameral conference meetings on the bill and was not included in earlier versions of it.

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