Australian Company to Investigate Jover Laurio’s Potential Threat to Privacy

An Australian company offering financial services that has a business process outsourcing (BPO) office in the Philippines will investigate the potential threat to privacy allegedly committed by one of its previous employees - Maria Josephina Vergina Laurio, aka Jover Laurio, the controversial Filipina blogger behind the Pinoy Ako Blog (PAB).

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“Good afternoon Sass, It has been brought to our attention that you have recently made some posts on social media in relation to an alleged privacy breach by a former Credit Corp employee.” Adam Carpenter, the head of Legal and Compliance Credit Corp. Group, was quoted as a reply to Sass Rogando Sasot’s open letter to the said company.

“Credit Corp takes its obligations under the Privacy Act seriously and it is our practice to robustly investigate any allegations of misconduct. It appears from the content of your post, that you may have some information that would assist us in investigating the matter.” Mr. Carpenter added, referring to Laurio’s tweet back in May 2016.

In her open letter to Credit Corp. Australia via a Facebook post last Wednesday, Sass said that Laurio used to work at their company as a CRM Specialist from January 2011 and resigned just recently. The pro-Duterte blogger attached an exchange of tweets between Laurio and Benign0 of Get Real Philippines, an Australian resident.

missjover: @benign0 Bat pala umalis kayo sa J______? Malayo sa work? Sabagay ok yung nalipatan niya, kasi may garage kayong sarili.

benign0: @missjover Tsk tsk…Secondhand info in the hands of small minds…

missjover: @benign0 hahaha secondhand info? You sure? Hahaha I can give the exact one if you want.

Last January 20, Benign0 wrote a blog post at Get Real Philippines entitled “Jover Laurio and her former call centre employer may have violated Australian privacy laws.” There, he suggested that Joven Laurio is working in a call center that serves Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, and recalled her threats to his privacy.



“I recall that some of the threats she and her cohorts addressed to me made reference to telephone bills. If this is the case, Telstra should investigate whether Australian privacy laws had been violated both by Laurio and her former employer in the course of obtaining and distributing my private information.” Benign0 wrote.

Contributed by Renato Pasayao