Philippine Asian News Today Vol 20 No 21 | Page 23

November 1 - 15, 2018
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
ARTS AND CULTURE
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Regine talks about her new shows
Regine Velasquez says that
social media is generally a good thing
but some folks have abused it and
has now become a venue for bitter
and mean people to bash celebrities.
“It’s actually a venue to make friends
and to inform others, ‘di ba?” she
says. “The aim is positive, to make
you feel that you belong but for some
negative people, it has become a
venue to show their hate and ruin the
happiness of other people. Hindi nila
alam, nakakasakit sila ng iba and they
can cause depression because of their
bullying, lalo na sa young people.”
But as of now, she wants to forget
all haters who bashed her for leaving
GMA-7 as she’s very busy preparing
for her three-night concert, “Regine
at the Movies,” to be held at the New
Frontier Theatre on November 17, 24
and 25. She will have different special
guest each night: Piolo Pascual on
November 17, Sharon Cuneta on the
24th and Daniel Padilla on the 25th.
“This is a special concert as I
will be singing songs from memorable
movies, both foreign and local, like
the songs of Henry Mancini who has
done many classic Hollywood films
like ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ’Two for the
Road’ and ‘Days of Wine Roses.’ Also
songs from hit animated films from
Disney. They’re all very familiar so
puede maki-sing along ang audience
sa akin.”
She feels like she’s starting
over again now that she has moved
to ABS-CBN. “I feel that it’s a new
beginning for me so I’m excited. I’m
looking forward to my collaboration with Kapamilya stars kasi ang dami
ko talagang gustong makatrabaho sa
kanila. They’ve prepared new shows
for me and I’m excited to do those
as they will offer new challenges for
me.”
It’s said “ASAP” will have a
revamp and many singers will lose
their jobs because of her. “Hindi
naman totoo ‘yun. Sir Deo Endrinal
told me noon pa nila balak mag-
reformat at nataon lang na dumating
ako ngayon. Pero hindi dahil sa akin
so huwag naman akong sisihin at
baka ma-bash na naman po ako ng
todo.” (abs-cbn)
as yourselves must abide by principles
of transparency, legitimate purpose,
and proportionality. Under these
principles, data subjects such as the
pageant delegates have the right to be
informed of every aspect of how their
data is to be processed, and the right
to access this data… The compliance
of Carousel Productions Inc., as the
personal information controller, to
Philippine law is not apparent to this
Commission,” it added.
Miss
Earth-Canada
Jaime
Yvonne Vandenberg withdrew from
the competition after an alleged
pageant sponsor “harassed” her.
She said the sponsor got her
mobile number without her consent
and kept calling her to ask for her
hotel and room number. She also
said that the pageant organizers confiscated her passport, but this has
been denied by Carousel.
The NPC said Carousel must
submit within five days the name of its
data protection officer and Carousel’s
NPC registration details; an explanation
as to the reported disclosure of the
mobile phone number of one of the
Miss Earth contestants to a sponsor;
an explanation of the process
surrounding your processing of the
data of the contestants’ passports.
NPC also asked Carousel
to submit its copy of privacy
management program and policies
and procedures of on the collection,
use, access, disclosure, storage and
disposal of personal data, including
organizational, physical and technical
security measures. (J. Montemayor,
Malaya)
Carousel told to explain data privacy measures
The
National
Privacy
Commission (NOC) gave the Miss
Earth pageant organizer five days to
explain their data protection measures
as the agency looks its potential data
privacy violation amid some alleged
sexual harassment allegations suffered
by some of the foreign candidates.
NPC, in its letter dated
November 11 and addressed to
Carousel Productions, Inc. President
Ramon Monzon and Executive Vice
President Lorraine Schuck, said the
agency found no records of the data
about the Data Protection Officer
(DPO) and data processing system
of Carousel which “signifies potential
non-compliance with the Data Privacy
Act and implies possible negligence in
adhering to data protection standards
set by the commission.”
Lawyer
Francis
Euston
Acero, chief of the Complaints and
Investigations Division of NPC who
signed the letter to Carousel, said
the pageant organizer is considered
a personal information controller
under the Data Privacy Act of 2012
which obligates them to follow data
protection regulations.
The letter state that it has
come to the NPC’s attention that the
personal mobile number of one of
the candidates had ended up in the
hands of one of the pageant sponsors
despite her lack of consent while the
delegate’s passport had also been
confiscated and not made available
despite the contestant’s demand.
“Under the Data Privacy Act, all
personal information controllers such
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