{"id":197520,"date":"2019-01-13T04:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=197520"},"modified":"2019-01-13T04:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T09:47:29","slug":"dnd-to-coordinate-with-dfa-on-passport-data-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/13\/dnd-to-coordinate-with-dfa-on-passport-data-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"DND to coordinate with DFA on passport data mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165232\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lorenzana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165232\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lorenzana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lorenzana.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lorenzana-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Lorenzana-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;If true, then it is a very grave security concern and quite alarming. These are personal information such as full name, date and place of birth and other information that could be used illegally,&#8221; DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in a message to reporters Sunday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/DNDPHL\/photos\/a.177413328982358.46480.114373295286362\/1679879578735718\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/DNDPHL\/\">Department of National Defense &#8211; Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of National Defense (DND) will coordinate with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to examine details on the alleged passport data mess involving a former contractor of the latter and how to mitigate its effects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If true, then it is a very grave security concern and quite alarming. These are personal information such as full name, date and place of birth and other information that could be used illegally,&#8221; DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said in a message to reporters Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will get in touch with the DFA to find out the details of this issue and how to mitigate its ill effect,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., in a Twitter exchange Wednesday, revealed that the previous contractor has made inaccessible the data it was entrusted to after its printing contract was terminated.<\/p>\n<p>Before the contract for the production of Philippine electronic passports was awarded to the APO Production Unit Inc. (APUI), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), through a French firm, had been printing passport booklets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of National Defense (DND) will coordinate with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to examine details on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":165232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}