By Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos | Philippine News Agency
The government has partnered with telecommunication companies to establish a “unified dashboard” that will be launched next month to ramp up the fight against deepfakes, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Henry Aguda said Wednesday.
Aguda said telcos are in charge of the technical design of the dashboard framework, while the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), and the National Privacy Commission (NPC) will oversee the policy and regulatory pronouncements.
He said in a Palace press briefing“This month, matatapos ‘yong aming final design. Next month, i-implement na po natin. Magkakaroon kayo ng matinding experience na mababawasan ‘yong mga iyan.”
The dashboard will enable the government and the telcos to monitor and get rid of the Internet Protocol (IP) address associated not just with deepfakes but also with pornography sites, “ang usapan namin sa kanila, kapag nagbigay kami ng IP address o kaya domain, immediately tanggal. Hindi lang ‘yon, mahirap kasi may wait time ka. Pagka kasi after a day mo siya tanggalin, damage done na,” Aguda said.
“Makikita namin lahat doon in real time ‘yong mga site na nai-report na illegal. Makikita din sa dashboard ng mga telco din at makikita namin ‘yong oras kung kailan nila tinanggal,” he added.
Aguda said the DICT will also hold a meeting with leading social media platforms on Thursday, as part of the intensified efforts to detect and counter deepfakes.
He said the DICT will be briefed about geo-blocking, a technology that restricts access to online content based on geographical location.
He said the practice is one way of managing contents on social media, preventing the proliferation of deepfake manipulation, “Ang tawag po sa mekanismo na ‘yon, geo-blocking, geolocking. ‘Yong same mechanism po ng technology na iyan, ‘yon ang sinasabi ko sa mga streaming platform at sa mga social media platform, alam niyo kaya niyo naman i-prevent iyan proactively.”
“I’m confident naman na makikinig sila… and in the same process na nag-agree ang mga telco on technical solutions, they will also agree on a technical solution.”
