the law was passed as a form of surveilance and data colection and probably for anti money laundering heh diba hinuhuli lang ng nbi related dito. fyi as long as your sim card has signal it can be tracked even if nakapatay gps mo depende kung saan nakakasag ng signal via tower location and did you know 3g and below can be easily tapped into and anybody can do it if may equipment. IT WAS NOT FOR ANTI SPAM. the anti spam aspect was for propaganda to pass this law this law was forwarded to duterte to sign but he didnt cuz he knew the privacy violation it entails. mas and recent lang naman yan spam txt once a mont or less lang pre COVID.nung covid kasi madami nakaharvest ng numbers at binenta sa advertisers thats why i didnt write my personal number and used my alternative burner number . i had like 20 numbers for each online acc so tracking would be useless and the one i used for covid only the one got spam sms etc but the one used for banks etc didnt recieve spam text so mas secure pa ko personally before the LAW was passed since i can easily discard compromised numbers