IT is striking that Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. chose Twitter as the medium for disclosing the alarming information that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has lost the personal data information of millions of Filipino passport holders because an outsourced passport maker for the DFA “took all” applicants’ data on account of the termination of its contract with the government.

The use of Twitter in Locsin’s disclosure has the odd effect of understating the offense in the very process of exposing it to the public.