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What Is the Origin of the “Information Bank”?
Two interview articles were published in Nikkei X-Trend. What Must Be Protected Is Privacy, Not Data Why Was the Information Bank Named a “Bank”? The titles are sensational, but th…
Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Cellphone Location Data Is Constitutionally Protected
I learned from an EFF tweet that the U.S. Supreme Court appears to have ruled that cellphone location information is protected by the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It was…
Merry Privmas
In support of Doc Searls’s proposal that we celebrate this day, “May 25,” when the GDPR takes effect, every year as “Privmas”… Watch this video on YouTube.Playing the video c…
Who Owns the Data? — European Identity Conference 2018 Featured Session
On April 13, at 9:55 p.m., I suddenly decided to send an email titled “Facebook, mydata, and Self Sovereign Identity” to Martin Kuppinger and Joerg Resch of Kuppinger Cole. Actuall…
Protecting Privacy and the Responsibilities of Information Banks
On January 16, Keio University hosted a symposium on “information banks,” a topic that has attracted attention in many quarters since the Cabinet decision last year. It…
November 30 (Thu.) 13:30– Information Processing Society of Japan Intensive Seminar “Toward a Privacy-Friendly Society”
I will be appearing at the Information Processing Society of Japan Intensive Seminar “Toward a Privacy-Friendly Society,” to be held on Thursday, November 30, from 13:30. Other tha…
Financial API — Part 1: Read Only Security Profile Is Undergoing Final Review Before the Implementer’s Draft Vote
The “Financial API — Part 1: Read Only Security Profile”, which is being developed by the OpenID Foundation’s Financial API WG (FAPI WG), is undergoing final review bef…
Court of Justice of the EU Ruling: IP Addresses Are Personal Data, but Storing Them in Logs Is Lawful—Legitimate Interest
Yet another foolish article has been making the rounds. It claims: “EU: New ruling says IP addresses are also personal data; storing access logs without consent is illegal” What no…
Data Breaches Up 15% and Number of Records Up 31%; 1/3 from Healthcare (Gemalto Report)
Gemalto has published its Breach Level Index report. According to the report, data breaches in the first half of 2016 showed the following: Compared with the previous 6 months, bre…
Why an Open Internet Matters #OECDDigitalMX
(The following is an English translation of a speech delivered during a panel discussion at the TUAC Forum of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy 2016. The original…
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