{"id":777022363,"date":"2025-01-27T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022363"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:24:21","slug":"lotto-app-to-be-investigated-over-use-of-philippine-government-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/lotto-app-to-be-investigated-over-use-of-philippine-government-logo","title":{"rendered":"Lotto app to be investigated over use of Philippine government logo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group has been directed to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has (January 27) asked the Philippine National Police (PNP) to investigate a mobile app named <strong>PCSO Lotto Online Award<\/strong> and its associated Facebook page Online Lotto for apparently using its logo, images and other identifiers without authorisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DILG secretary <strong>Jonvic Remulla<\/strong> said the lottery app had misappropriated pictures taken during the Seal of Good Local Governance 2024 ceremony and incentive fund expo. Remulla said: &#8220;We have already directed the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group to immediately investigate this matter. We have also reported this unauthorized use of DILG materials to Meta for further action.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: &#8220;The Department of the Interior and Local Government strongly condemns the unauthorized use of our logos, photos, and other Department markings and materials for unrelated posts, advertisements, or any malicious purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/114-arrested-in-the-philippines-for-alleged-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">114 arrested in the Philippines for alleged illegal gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group has been directed to investigate the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777018832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in the Philippines has directed the Philippine National Police (PNP) Anti-Cybercrime Group to investigate a mobile application and associated Facebook page, \"PCSO Lotto Online Award\" and \"Online Lotto,\" for the unauthorized use of DILG and PCSO logos and imagery. This action underscores the government's commitment to combating brand misappropriation and ensuring market integrity within the lottery sector.","focusai_entities":"Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Philippine National Police (PNP), PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group, PCSO Lotto Online Award, Online Lotto, Meta, Jonvic Remulla","focusai_location":"The Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), gambler_consumer (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Actions?","query":"What specific regulatory and enforcement actions are anticipated against the operators of the unauthorized \"PCSO Lotto Online Award\" app, and what precedent does this set for intellectual property protection in the iGaming sector?"},{"label":"Consumer Protection Strategy?","query":"How will the DILG and PCSO enhance public awareness campaigns to differentiate legitimate lottery offerings from fraudulent applications, thereby mitigating consumer fraud risk?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777022363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777022363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022366,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022363\/revisions\/777022366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777018832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777022363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}