Monthly Archives: April 2023

Business, Law Enforcement

Filipino Courier Services Revise Photo-Taking Protocol!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – If you had packages delivered to you by courier — whether it be stuff you ordered from Lazada or Shopee, or food you bought through Grab or Food Panda, you know the delivery personnel ask to take a picture of you as proof of delivery.

Well, that is going to change soon.

After customer complaints that the taking of photos during package delivery is a violation of privacy rights. The law says that you can refuse to have your photo taken.

So, in order to comply with the law, the courier companies have revised their delivery protocol. They will still take your photo, but they will ask you for a wacky pose. That way, your real self won’t be recognizable.

Brilliant!

Social Media

Raissa Robles’ Tweet On Sass Rogando Sasot Backfires!

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NETHERLANDS, The Hague (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – What goes up, must come down. What goes out, will come back.

This was the painful lesson learned by self-proclaimed investigative journalist and Twitter Marites, Raissa Robles, when she posted a photo of Vlogger Sass Rogando Sasot with a certain Raul in China.

For whatever intent and purpose Robles had in mind, she had a taste of her own medicine when Sasot replied with her own tweet.

Sasot’s reply to Robles was not so sweet!

Environment, International, Technology, The Media

Nobel Laureates Stand Up For Nuclear Plants, Maria Ressa Is Missing!

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BERLIN, Germany (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Nobel laureates and leading scientists are urging German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop his country’s nuclear exit, saying that eliminating this major source of low-carbon power while reopening coal power plants endangers the global climate.

Visibly absent from this group of Nobel laureates is Maria Ressa.

The Adobo Chronicles reached out to Ressa at her posh Rappler office and asked her why she hasn’t added her name to this urging.

She said science, environment and technology are way beyond her limited expertise, and added, “But you can ask me anything about the law being weaponized to curtail press freedom, holding the line, death by a thousand cuts, how to stand up to a dictator or a lie told a thousand times becoming the truth, then we can talk!”

Well, no one can be all-knowing.