Malacañang favors reducing exemptions on the proposed Freedom of Information (FOI) bill to 10 but warned of privacy breach if the bill becomes law.

Assistant Secretary Kristian Ablan of the Presidential Communications Office made the apparently contradictory statements during the first hearing on the proposed FOI bill conducted by the House Committee on Public Information headed by Rep. Antonio Tinio of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers party-list group.

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