Romualdez refiles SIM card registration bill at House

Undated file photo shows House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez.

The STAR / Boy Santos

MANILA, Philippines — Rep. Martin Romualdez (Leyte), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s cousin and who is seen as the likely next speaker of the House, has filed a bill seeking to require the registration of Subscriber Identity Module cards to help prevent crimes done through mobile phones. 

The bill, which raised privacy concerns during the 18th Congress, also lists Rep. Ferdinand Alexander Marcos (Ilocos Norte), and Reps. Yedda Marie Romualdez and Jude Acidre (Tingog party-list) as authors.

If passed into law, House Bill No. 14 will compel anyone in the Philippines who intends to buy prepaid and postpaid SIM cards to register their personal information with public telecommunications entities (PTEs) or with authorized SIM card sellers.

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