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HTC Smartphone Vulnerability Allows Anyone to Read Fingerprint Images, Sending Share Price Plunging
According to an article in The Guardian, it appears that an HTC smartphone stored users’ fingerprint images in a form that anyone could read. The issue was discovered by 4 FireEye…
Privacy-Related News That Caught My Attention Last Week (2015/6/10–17)
These days, I have a mountain of things I want to write about but have not managed to write at all. How is everyone doing? Since I do not have time to write a proper blog post, her…
International Cybersecurity Conference to Be Held in Okinawa on 11/7 and 8
TBSNews i reports that the government will hold an international conference on cybersecurity in Okinawa Prefecture in 11 this year. The conference will take place on 11/7 and 8 at…
How “Numbers” Should Be Designed: Reflections on the Pension Number Leak
Regarding the pension number leak, apparently “all leaked numbers will be changed”. Personally, all I can think is, “Oh dear.” As I wrote in yesterday’s article, if operated approp…
Personal Information Protection Bill (Including the My Number Bill): Vote Postponed for the Time Being
According to an NHK News report on June 9: Although it is referred to here as the My Number Bill, its official title is the “Bill for Partial Revision of the Act on the Protection…
Microsoft Azure and Dropbox Comply with International Standard ISO/IEC 27018 for Cloud Privacy Controls
It seems that Microsoft Azure has been confirmed as the first cloud computing platform to comply with ISO/IEC 27018 [1], the only international standard for privacy controls in the…
Is It Dangerous When an “Identifier Number” Leaks?
We are entering a summer at the height of the My Number compliance bubble. How is everyone doing? As it happens, pension numbers have leaked on a massive scale People say this migh…
【Amendment of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information】Obligation to Keep Records of Third-Party Provision【Part 2】
Now, regarding the obligation to keep records of third-party provision that I pointed out on 3/12[1], I subsequently learned a great deal from people at the Cabinet Secretariat…
I Strongly Agree with Professor Natsui’s Commentary on Japan’s Personal Information Protection Legislation
Professor Natsui’s blog[1] carried commentary on Japan’s personal information protection legislation, framed as a review of the so-called “privacy freak book…
[個人情報保護法改正] Anonymously Processed Information and Records of Provision to Third Parties (revised 3/13 at 8:50)
The proposed amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information was approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday and has been published[1]. Several problems with it have been poi…
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