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x.pose: A Dress That Visualizes How Using a Smartphone Strips You Bare
What if you could visualize how the data generated by your smartphone strips you bare? x.pose is a garment created by Ms. Chen, a graduate student at New York University. Sheets th…
Summary of the 11th Meeting of the Personal Data Study Group
The 11th meeting of the Personal Data Study Group was held. This was a pivotal meeting at which the draft outline was presented. Agenda for the 11th Meeting of the Personal Data St…
I Am a Rabbit. I Do Not Yet Have a Name. 【My Number】
The mascot character for the Social Security and Tax Number System (My Number System) was selected on May 30. Here it is. [マイナンバーの広報用ロゴマーク参照] In addition to appearing on posters an…
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Consider the Impact of the Act Rather Than the Type of Data
I have talked about this in various places, so I imagine many of you may be thinking, “I’ve heard this before…” Currently, a Study Group on Personal Data[1] is being held by…
Facebook Plans to Add a Feature That Lets Its App Listen to Sounds Around You
According to a Forbes article dated 5/22, Facebook apparently plans to add a feature to its smartphone app that listens to sounds around you. Initially available only in the United…
Again?! Massive leak in South Korea of personal information including national ID and credit card data
According to a report by Nikkei BP [1], it appears that another massive leak of personal information has occurred in South Korea. This has happened many times before, but this time…
JICS2014 (1/15 15:40): Can Information Banks and PDSs Become High-Performance Sports Cars for Personal Data Use?
I believe that the fundamental reason why personal data sharing and use can never gain speed is that the underlying setup is flawed. Much of the time, it seems that, based on the p…
JICS2014 (1/15 11:30): Personal Data Federation Without Backlash!
Japan Identity & Cloud Summit 2014 will be held on 1/14 and 15, over 2 days, at the National Center of Sciences in Takebashi. On the 2nd day (1/15), during the morning (11:30-1…
The Terrible Reporting on Snowden’s Christmas Message
This article came through from NHK News Web. Snowden: “Let’s Stop the Collection of Personal Information” It says that he called for people to “make governments stop collecti…
What Do Unlinkability and De-identification Mean? (1)
These matters have been debated for a long time, but recently there has again been increased activity around me aimed at clarifying the meaning of terms such as “de-identification”…
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