San Agustin Iloilo Scandal 2010 ((link))

On September 8, 2010, the Supreme Court issued a final ruling ( G.R. No. 172138

The controversy centered around a private video involving students of the University of San Agustin. While scandals involving educational institutions were not unprecedented, the mechanism of dissemination in 2010 was novel. The Philippines was then experiencing the peak of the "USB era" and the nascent power of social networking sites like Facebook. The video, allegedly recorded without consent or distributed in a moment of profound lapses in judgment, escaped the confines of private devices and spread rapidly across Iloilo City and the wider Western Visayas region. san agustin iloilo scandal 2010

Despite these historical scandals, the University of San Agustin remains the first university in Western Visayas, founded in 1904. On September 8, 2010, the Supreme Court issued