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Guidelines for Providing Information and Explanations in Consideration of Consumer Privacy in Online Services Formulated (METI)

The guidelines I helped devise as a committee member have been published. METI's "Guidelines for Providing Information and Explanations that Consider Consumer Privacy in Online Services" are based on the results of the IT Convergence Forum Personal Data Working Group's deliberations two years ago, and were developed through a trial of pre-consultations with businesses conducted last year, with the aim of enhancing information provision and explanations to consumers…

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Thoughts on the Benesse personal information leak incident

It appears that up to 2070 million pieces of personal information of children and others were leaked from Benesse.[1] This is a thought-provoking incident in many ways. Let's look at a few of them. It is data about children. It is data that list brokers were unable to obtain for various reasons. Actual harm to individuals has been confirmed. The data has been found to be circulating amongst itself, and this problem is beginning to be recognized. It is happening in the midst of the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act.

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JICS2014 (1/15 11:30) ~ Personal data linking through flame war responses!

The Japan Identity & Cloud Summit 2014 will be held over two days, January 14th and 15th, at the Academic Research Center in Takebashi. I've been asked to give a lecture titled "Privacy and Identity (Tentative Title)" in the "Introduction Track" on the morning of the second day (January 15th) (11:30-12:00). Actually, I was asked to do this quite a while ago and agreed...