THE Credit Information Corp. (CIC) has started conducting preliminary activities as part of the privacy impact assessment (PIA) required by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) ID integration into the Credit Information System.

The PIA is one of the onboarding requirements of the PSA for the integration, which will be performed on CIC’s data processing systems to ensure compliance with Republic Act 10173 or the

Data Privacy Act of 2012 (DPA). It will also be performed to complete the CIC’s PhilSys Integration and Implementation Plan, which is the road map for PhilSys integration across all of CIC processes, manuals and business operations.

The PhilSys ID Integration-PIA project of the CIC comprises six phases. The CIC has already completed the first two phases of the project, covering the submission of the inception report and project plan by the highly technical consultant (HTC), the conduct of data privacy awareness to key CIC employees and personnel, and the initial mapping of the data processing systems, programs and services of the CIC that will require identity verification through PhilSys.

The succeeding PIA phases focus on the completion and review of other CIC processes, manuals and business operations covering PhilSys ID integration.

To ensure its prompt and full compliance with the DPA and PSA’s requirements, the CIC has established a steering committee and technical working group for the PIA project last December 2022. The CIC has also engaged the services of Dr. Rolando Lansigan, former chief of the National Privacy Commission’s Compliance and Monitoring Division, as project HTC.