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Philippines

18%DSA alignment

The Philippines has no DSA-style platform-transparency or accountability regime in force; binding platform obligations are confined to child sexual-abuse material (RA 11930) and e-commerce consumer protection (RA 11967), while transparency and algorithmic measures exist only as pending Congressional bills.

In forceAnti-OSAEC and Anti-CSAEM Act (RA 11930) (2022)· DOJ Office of Cybercrime
In forceInternet Transactions Act (RA 11967) (2023)· DTI E-Commerce Bureau
In forceData Privacy Act (RA 10173) (2012)· NPC

Scored against the DSA

Each obligation the DSA imposes on very large platforms, and whether Philippines’s law requires the same. Cells cover DSA-style, user-protective transparency and accountability only.

  • Required by law
  • Partial / emerging
  • No such obligation
  • Undetermined

Transparency

  • No such obligation

    Public ad libraryDSA Art. 39

    No ad-library mandate.

  • No such obligation

    Transparency reportsDSA Art. 15 / 24 / 42

    No content-moderation transparency-report mandate (proposed SB 1441 concerns a verified-news registry, not DSA-style reporting).

  • No such obligation

    Researcher data accessDSA Art. 40

    No researcher data-access mandate.

  • No such obligation

    Reach disclosureDSA Art. 24(2)

    No periodic active-user disclosure mandate.

Accountability

  • No such obligation

    Systemic risk assessmentDSA Art. 34–35

    No systemic-risk-assessment mandate.

  • No such obligation

    Independent auditDSA Art. 37

    No external compliance-audit mandate.

  • No such obligation

    Algorithmic transparencyDSA Art. 27 / 38

    No recommender-transparency or chronological-feed mandate in force.

  • Regulator + penaltiesDSA Art. 49–52, 74

    No dedicated platform-governance regulator; only fragmented sectoral fine powers (DTI under the ITA, DOJ under RA 11930, NPC under the Data Privacy Act).

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Child protection

  • No such obligation

    No profiling ads to minorsDSA Art. 26(3) / 28

    No ban on targeted advertising to minors.

  • Age assuranceBeyond the DSA

    RA 11930 s.9(b) requires high-privacy child defaults and age-verification controls 'where practical'; robust ID/age verification only proposed (SB 40).

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  • Required

    Child-safety duty of careDSA Art. 28

    RA 11930 s.9 imposes binding duties on intermediaries: prohibit CSAEM in ToS, detect/block within 24h, report to DOJ, preserve data and set high-privacy child defaults (CSAEM-specific).

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