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Ratio:
“Section 1. Habeas Data. – The writ of habeas data is a remedy available to any person whose
right to privacy in life, liberty or security is violated or threatened by an unlawful act or omission
of a public official or employee or of a private individual or entity engaged in the gathering,
collecting or storing of data or information regarding the person, family, home and
correspondence of the aggrieved party”
It’s a forum for enforcing one’s right to the truth. Like amparo, habeas data was a response to
killings and enforced disappearances.
Castillo v Cruz- and habeas data will NOT issue to protect purely property or commercial
concerns nor when the grounds invoked in support of the petitions therefor are vague or
doubtful.
Employment is a property right in the due process clause. Lim was concerned with her
employment, one that can be solved in the NLRC.
There was no violation of respondent’s right to privacy. Respondent even said that the letters
were mere jokes and even conceded the fact that the issue was labor related due to references
to “real intent of management”.