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Second Regular Session 
S E N A T E  
Introduced by Senator PIA S. CAYETANO 
EXPLANATORYNOTE 
The level of technology we have today has made life easier for us. Recording 
devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras and video cameras and data 
storage devices such as CDs, flash disks and memory cards have made 
recording and transferring of files very easy. However, with the misuse of this 
technology, there can be invasions of one's private acts. 
This bill, therefore, aims to penalize the act of recording or any attempt to record 
acts which one has a reasonable expectation of privacy, including but not limited 
to sexual acts, without the consent of all the parties involved. It also aims to 
penalize the sharing, showing or exhibition to other persons of such recording, if 
done without the consent of the parties. This is considered the highest form of 
invasion to the privacy of the offended party. Such violation is condemnable and 
needs to be penalized in its highest degree. 
With the recent proliferation of sex scandals in the internet and mobile phones, 
many of our women have been doubly victimized - first, when the recording was 
made without their consent and second, when such recording was viewed again 
and again. In light of the foregoing, the passage of this measure is earnestly 
sought. 
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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Second Regular Session 
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S E N A T E  
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Introduced by Senator PIA S. CAYETANO 
AN ACT 
TO PROHIBIT AND PENALIZE THE RECORDING 
OF PRIVATE ACT OR ACTS AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE PRIVACY 
OF AN INDIVIDUAL, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
SECTION I. 
Short Tit/e. -The Act shall be known as the "Anti-Video Voyeurism 
Act of 2009." 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. -The State values the dignity of every human 
person and guarantees full respect for human rights. 
SECTION 3. Prohibited Acts. - 
Congress assembled: 
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, without the consent of all the parties to 
any private act or acts, including but not limited to sexual act, to record or 
attempt to record the same, in any form and for whatever purpose. 
(2) It shall also be unlawful for any person, be he a participant or not in the 
act or acts penalized in the preceding sentence, to knowingly possess any 
video tape, disc record, or any other such record, or copies thereof, of any 
private act secured either before or after the effectivity of this Act in the 
manner prohibited herein, with the intent to share, relay or exhibit the 
contents thereof in any form. 
(3) It shall also be unlawful for any person to replay the same for any other 
person or persons, or to share, relay or exhibit the contents thereof in any 
form, without the consent of all the parties to the said private act or acts. 
Provided, That use of such record or any copy thereof as evidence in any 
civil, criminal investigation or trial of offenses mentioned above, shall not be 
covered by this prohibition. 
SECTION 4. Penalties. -Any person who willfully or knowingly does or who shall 
aid, permit, or cause to be done any of the acts declared to be unlawful in the 
preceding section or who violates the provisions of the following section or any 
order issued thereunder, or aids, permits, or causes such violation shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months or 
more than six years and a fine of P 100,000.00 but not more than P 500,000.00: 
If the offender is an alien, he shall be subject to deportation proceedings, after 
complying with the penalty of imprisonment and fine for such violation. 
SECTION 5. Nothing contained in this Act, however, shall render it unlawful or 
punishable for any peace officer, who is authorized by a written order of the 
Court, to use the record or any copy thereof as evidence in any civil, criminal 


investigation or trial of offenses: Provided, That such written order shall only be 
issued or granted upon written application and the examination under oath or 
affirmation of the applicant and the witnesses he may produce, and upon 
showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that any of the crimes 
enumerated has been committed or is about to be committed and 
that 
the 
evidence to be obtained is essential to the conviction of any person for, or to the 
solution of, or to the prevention of, any such crimes. 
The Court referred to in this section shall be understood to mean the Regional 
Trial Court within whose territorial jurisdiction the crime is committed. 
SECTION 6. Any record or copy obtained or secured by any person in violation 
of the preceding section shall not be admissible in evidence in any judicial, quasi- 
judicial, legislative or administrative hearing or investigation. 
SECTION 7. Repealing Clause. Any laws, decrees, ordinances or rules and 
regulations which are inconsistent with or contrary to the provision of this Act are 
hereby amended or repealed. 
SECTION 8. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (1 5) days after its 
complete publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general 
circulation. 
Approved,