crime committed:
    credit card fraud

accused/criminal:
    Melinda Asuncion

court's decision:
    Arrested.

source:
    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/11/11/woman-nabbed-credit-card-fraud

crime ommitted:
    credit card fraud

accused/criminal:
    Lim King and Leung Hung Ying

court's decision:
    Guilty under the Access Device Regulation Act of 1998. He sentenced each to three years in jail and a fine of P121,738. The two pleaded guilty when charged, which explained the lighter jail term, normally a maximum of five years, and lower fine.

source:
    http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=95600

crime committed:
    Unauthorized access of school's computer system.

accused/criminals:
    Leilani Garcia

court's decision:
    Leilani Garcia was charged with violating a provision of RA 8792, also known as the e-commerce act of 2000, a former employee of the complainant, Thames International Business School.

source:
    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/11/11/woman-nabbed-credit-card-fraud

crime committed:
    Phreaking or phone hacking
   
name of criminals:
    Macnell Gracilla, Francisco Manalac, Regina Balura, and Paul Michael Kwan.

court's decision:
    Arrested are facing charges in the Philippines; there's no word on whether the US will seek the extradition of Kwan on the outstanding conspiracy indictment.

source:
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/how-filipino-phreakers-turned-pbx-systems-into-cash-machines-for-terrorists.ars

crime committed:
    stealing credit card information by hacking company's system

accused/criminal:
    Jeffric Carlos Abiera
   
court's decision:
    Jeffric Carlos Abiera was sentenced on May 4, 2006

source:
    http://emailspotting.wordpress.com/2006/05/22/filipino-call-center-agent-found-guilty-of-hacking/

crime committed:
    hacking

accused/criminal:
    JJ Maria Giner

court's decision:
    Convicted in September 2005 and sentenced to one to two years of imprisonment and fined PhP 100,000.
   
source:
    http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/RS_No79/No79_12PA_Sosa.pdf

Q. What is there for to rejoice if you have the intellectual property on something? Would it be a great instrument to the economic growth of the country? Or you are just the sole beneficiary of the fruits you have reaped from what you have sowed? Explain.

Let me start by defining two important keywords: Intellectual Propery and Innovation. Intellectual property or IP refers to the creations of the mind. Innovation means developing a new idea and putting it into practice.

Intellectual property plays an important role in innovation and innovation promotes economic growth of our country. Protecting our intellectual property rights can be sold or licensed and provide personal and national revenue.

Q. Facebook's marketing director, who happens to be Mark Zuckerberg's sister, proposed last year that banning online anonymity would help curtail cyber-bullying and Internet harassment. Then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a similar observation in year 2010, noting that "privacy is incredibly important" but "not the same thing as anonymity." If banning is already imposed or will be imposed would this stop annoying comments against someone freely posted by an anonymous FB user? Is this ethical? Is this against the freedom of speech? Support your answer.

Banning online anonymity in Facebook would somehow reduced annoying comments in Facebook but not totally. It is said that people behave better when they have their real identities but there are still people who don't care about it. There are people who are not concerned about their reputation and kept on doing unethical acts.

Posting annoying comments in Facebook is unethical. It doesn't do good to anybody even to the one posting it. This is not part of our freedom of speech because doing so have violate other's right and disrespectful to others.

Imposing the banning in online anonymity is ethical and not against the freedom of speech because it's main goal is to reduced cyber-bullying issues.

Q. Talking about privacy, how far would you go for the sake of social justice?

In publicly available digital or computer services, privacy policy should be presented to its clients. The privacy policy should be clear and agreed before using the services. The privacy policy should include how the owner of the service used the information provided its customers.

For example, in a website, their should be a note on privacy on how the visitors is being track on its visits and the intended purpose of the information gathered.

Q. Is social justice evident in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Corona?

"Salus Populi est suprema lex" - Welfare of the people is the supreme law.

Social justice means the promotion of the welfare of the people. Government must maintain proper economic and social stability that will promote social justice.

The main issue on the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is corruption. He used his legislated powers for illegitimate private gain which apparent on his properties. The impeachment trial is about corruption, about social justice.

Q. What computer abuse would you like to eradicate? How would you do it?

I really hate spam. Receiving unwanted or junk e-mails is annoying for me. The issue on this is not the content of the e-mail but the consent.

Im currently using e-mail services from google (Gmail) and yahoo (Yahoo! Mail). They both have spam filters but I'm still receiving lot of unsolicited e-mail.

I want to be part of the solution to this kind of computer abuse. What I gonna do is to study and implement existing machine learning algorithms that are used in spam filtering. And the last and never ends ambitious thing to do is to improve those existing algorithms.

Q. There are still enormous sources of misinformation on the world wide web, so how can you determine what is good information and what is bad information?

Internet nowadays is the most common and widely used source of information. A lot of students rely from it over the traditional libraries. We can get information from web logs, online journals, news, wiki, forums and social networking sites. Relying unchecked information from this emerging web technologies is somewhat dangerous.

Anyone who have internet access can tweet, update their Facebook status, send email, post web logs and update wiki pages. These the most common sources of bad information like urban legends because it can be spread rapidly by just one mouse click. Before we spread this kind of information, we have to do a simple research. We can use search engines to check the root of the information and its validity.

Q. Today, it is a fact that a lot of Filipino women are into online GOLD digging. You know what it means, right? Suppose one of them is your sister who happens to be your family's breadwinner. What would you do on this matter?

If my sister happen to be engage in a relationship having interest only for material benefits, I have to talk to her. I will advice her to stop what she is doing and look for another source of income, even she is our breadwinner. She can make money online in many ways other than selling herself. She can work remotely as virtual assistant, or she can make money in blogging.