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April 08 2024

Simplified procedures for using My Number health insurance cards: Starting October 10th

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare will begin implementing improvements to simplify the procedures for using My Number Health Insurance Cards, making them easier to use, starting from October 7th. The two main changes are as follows: Simplification of the consent process for providing information on the Certificate of Eligibility for High-Cost Medical Care: Before: After: Unification of the consent method for providing medical information: Before: After: These changes will make the procedures for using My Number Health Insurance Cards smoother and improve user convenience…

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April 25 2020

Events

[2020-07-27] Identiverse: So You Want to Base on Consent?

On July 28th at 3:30 AM Japan time, I will be giving a presentation on Identiverse titled "So You Want to Base on Consent?". The title is inspired by Glenn Gould's song "So You Want to Write a Fugue?", and it explores the idea of doing something seemingly reckless, but then asking what to do instead…

April 22 2018

Events

Trustech 2018 Lecture (11/27) @ Cannes, France

I will be giving a presentation at "Trustech 2018," a large-scale event with 10,000 attendees, in Cannes, France, on November 27th at 10:35 AM. It's part of a session titled "IDENTITY AND PRIVACY: THE FULL PICTURE." Conference information can be found on the Trustech 2018 website. OpenID i…

Events

April 19 2014

identity

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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April 24 2012

Your Privacy

Meaningful Consent Part 2 – Crowdsourced Evaluation of Terms of Use: The ToS-DR Project

In a previous article, "Meaningful Consent and Information Sharing Standard Labels," we discussed the unrealistic assumption that users read, understand, and consent to privacy policies and terms of service, and introduced the "Information Sharing Standard Labels" being standardized by the Kantara Initiative as a way to improve this situation. Information sharing standard labels are fundamentally something that information providers should provide, and they themselves…

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