While the COVID-19 pandemic has tested data privacy principles, it has also validated those principles, Philippines’ National Privacy Commissioner Raymund Liboro wrote in an op-ed for the Daily Tribune. The value of data privacy “has never been more crucial,” he wrote, and the pandemic has shown how data protection “can have profound impacts” on individuals. Liboro shared during an IAPP webinar, “Privacy-mindedness as a culture should now develop within organizations, government and private, as they adjust in the lingering COVID-19 world.”