{"id":30356,"date":"2022-06-01T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30356"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:11:45","slug":"pagcor-awarded-at-2022-privacy-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-awarded-at-2022-privacy-awareness-week","title":{"rendered":"PAGCOR awarded at 2022 Privacy Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PAGCOR has received the Privacy Management Program Award while Maria Concepcion Gloria-Rubio received the NPC\u2019s Data Protection Officer of the Year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has picked up two awards at the National Privacy Commission’s 2022 Privacy Awareness Week. The regulator beat ten other nominees to win the Privacy Management Program Award (Government Sector). Data privacy officer Maria Concepcion Gloria-Rubio\u00a0<\/strong>was named Data Protection Officer of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awards ceremony was held on May 26 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC). Ross Sherwin De Claro, <\/strong>PAGCOR\u2019s Information Technology Department (ITD) senior manager II, had been shortlisted for the Privacy Advocate of the Year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGCOR chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo<\/strong>\u00a0said: \u201cWe recognize the challenges and obligations to respect the fundamental human right to privacy of all our customers while ensuring free flow of information to promote innovation and growth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ITD assistant vice president II Hector Melencio\u00a0<\/strong>added: “On behalf of our Chairman, Ms. Andrea Domingo, we would like to thank the NPC for giving this award to us in recognition for all our efforts on data privacy. We are also doing this in relation to Anti-Money Laundering.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAGCOR inaugurates its first village in Batangas province<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As previously reported by Focus Gaming News, the regulator has inaugurated the first PAGCOR Village in the municipality of Lemery, in Batangas. The PHP30m project aims to provide safe housing for poor families displaced by the Taal Volcano eruption in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, PAGCOR<\/a> has released PHP1.87bn for the construction of 73 MPECs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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