Communication law in the philippines

Outside the principles and policy pronouncements in the Constitution, communications surveillance is tackled, explicitly or implicitly, in several statutes or Republic Acts (RA) (Laws enacted by the Philippine Legislature or Congress) that provide a cause of action or remedies for breaches of privacy.

Under Section 3 of the Philippine Charter, communication privacy is inviolable except upon lawful order of the court, or when public safety or order, by law, requires otherwise.
Evidence obtained outside of these procedures is inadmissible for any purpose.

Its 1987 Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and of expression through provisions drawn from the American constitution and jurisprudence, tempered with experience under martial law.
Philippine laws since then have dealt with mass media as either print news media, or broadcast news, e.g. radio and television.

Law personnel in the Philippines are interpreting existing laws and policies quite liberally to twist these into their agenda to stifle free speech

Laws and policies are being used not only to clamp down on freedom of expression but also to reexamine registrations, permits, licenses and franchises of media entities critical of the government