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Public Comments Invited on Draft Ministerial Ordinance Concerning My Number Notification Cards, Individual Number Cards, and Related Matters
Public comments are being invited on the “Draft Ministerial Ordinance Concerning Notification Cards and Individual Number Cards, and the Provision of Specific Personal Information…
Has the Wheel Become Round?—The Maturity and Trends of Identity-Related Standards
The title on the ID&IT website is still provisional, but tomorrow at the ANA Hotel I will give a roughly 30-minute speech titled “Has the Wheel Become Round?—The Maturity and T…
I Will Be Appearing at IT&ID 2014
At the event being held in Osaka on 9/17 (Wed.) and in Tokyo on 9/19 (Fri.), I will be appearing in the international-speaker slot at “IT&ID 2014”. It is General Session [GE-05…
Government Plans to Introduce Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment Using My Number
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has settled on a policy of introducing income-contingent repayment into the university student loan system beginn…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation as a Board Member
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) joined the OpenID Foundation in the United States…
JIPDEC Partners with Yahoo and 6 Other Companies to Begin Offering Banks an Email Spoofing Prevention Solution
According to a press release from the Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community (JIPDEC)[1], JIPDEC has begun introducing the “Trusted Email Mark” shown in the…
Government Plans to Establish a My Number Call Center by October
The government will establish a call center within the Cabinet Office around October for the “My Number System,” which manages social security benefits and tax payments using 1 per…
Government Publishes Materials on Identity Verification Measures Related to the My Number System
On the 12th, the government published materials[1] on identity verification measures related to the My Number system. These materials explain the methods of number verification and…
Trying to Untangle a Vertically Siloed Spaghetti Information Infrastructure, but…
Professor Kokuryo, whom I deeply respect, gave me this topic. It took a little time, but I have now put my thoughts together in this blog post. Let me begin with the conclusion. (1…
Thoughts on the Benesse Personal Data Breach
It appears that children’s and other personal data—up to 20.7 million records—was leaked[1] from Benesse. This is a thought-provoking incident in many respects. Let us consid…
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