Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday signed into law a measure making cellphone SIM registration compulsory, in a key step towards fighting text scams, bank fraud and misinformation.

With only a week before the SIM registration period expires, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) announced that the April 26, 2023 deadline remains.

Introduced to “deter the proliferation of SIM card, internet or electronic communication-aided crimes,” the measure poses significant threats to privacy and free expression. Under the SIM Card ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vetoed the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card Registration Act two months after it was ratified by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Granted that as many people have more than one SIM, the actual number of new registrations could be fewer. Nevertheless, many of the 57m unregistered active SIM card owners will be largely in ...