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Felicisimo Agas III

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Felicisimo F. Agas III is a senior associate working in Quisumbing Torres’ Intellectual Property, Data and Technology Practice Group and a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group. He has around 9 years of experience in a wide range of IP and IT corporate and litigation matters.
Prior to taking up law, he also worked as a logistics specialist in the Philippine subsidiary of a Swiss multinational food and beverage company. He graduated with honors, salutatorian in his class at the Ateneo de Manila Law School. He also worked as a Court Attorney for the Supreme Court, the highest court of the Philippine judiciary, in which he assisted in handling complex and novel cases involving IP, data privacy and other commercial law issues.
He actively participates as a speaker in various regional and local seminars and trainings on IP, IT and data privacy in the Philippines. He also teaches at the commercial law department of the Ateneo de Manila Law School, one of the most prestigious law schools in the Philippines. He has taught subjects on legal research and insurance law, and currently teaches Data Privacy Law in the same university.
Felicisimo was recently cited in the 2024 edition of IAM Patent 1000 as a highly recommended individual for patents in the Philippines.

Various agencies led by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have signed Joint Administrative Order No. 24-03, Series of 2024 containing the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 11967, or The Internet Transactions Act of 2023 (ITA).
To recall, the ITA is intended to regulate e-commerce, protect consumer rights and data privacy, and uphold intellectual property rights.
The IRR clarifies the scope and coverage of the ITA, the enforcement powers of the DTI vis-à-vis other agencies, and the applicable procedure for imposition of fines.

Consent is not the only available lawful basis for processing personal information. Personal information controllers and other parties engaged in the processing of personal information may also use legitimate interest as a lawful basis for processing. However, these parties must be aware of the conditions and limitations for processing personal information based on legitimate interest. For this reason, the National Privacy Commission (“NPC”) recently issued NPC Circular No. 2023-07, which provides guidelines on the processing of personal information based on legitimate interest. The Circular takes effect on 14 January 2024.