APPLICANTS for passport renewal should not be burdened by requiring them to bring their birth certificates after the personal data breach, Malacanang said on Monday.
Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo made the statement after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) needed to "rebuild" its database for passports issued before 2010 after a "previous outsourced passport maker took all the data when contract terminated."
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