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Government contractor took off with Philippines passport data (rappler.com)
2 points by kixpanganiban on Jan 12, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Context: The Philippines' Foreign Secretary nonchalantly tweeted that the contractor for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) took off with Philippines passport data after its contract with the government ended in conflict. Now the government has lost access to its passport database, and would need to rebuild it from scratch. The problem is that they are all downplaying it and treating the incident as a minor inconvenience rather than a huge catastrophe.




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