According to a report by Nikkei BP [1], a large amount of personal information has been leaked again in South Korea. This has happened many times before, but this time even financial credit ratings were leaked. When personal information or card information is leaked, it is often used for fraudulent bank transfers or fraudulent use of cards, which are considered to be “safe” (security) information.
Further display Not again! > Massive leak of personal information including national IDs and credit card details in South Koreatag: National ID
JICS2013 First Day Summary
I made a togetter summary of the Japan Identity and Cloud Summit 2013. When I'm involved in the management of the event, I can't actually watch most of the sessions. In that respect, tweets like this help me catch up...
Further display JICS2013 First Day SummaryIs the information sharing infrastructure of the "number" system complex?
In the context of the national ID system, the "number" system (sometimes mistakenly called the common number system), there is a system infrastructure called the "information sharing infrastructure." The orange box in the diagram below (from the interim report of the Cabinet Secretariat's Information Sharing Infrastructure Technology Working Group) is this. It seems that this part is the "information sharing infrastructure" that has been...
Further display Is the information sharing infrastructure of the "number" system complex?WEF (organizer of the Davos Forum) releases new report
It's a bit old news, but on February 2th, at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, the World Economic Forum (the organizers of the famous Davos conference) released a new report. The title was "Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Category (Personal Data…
Further display WEF (organizer of the Davos Forum) releases new reportIssues with distributing national IDs
There is an argument that in order to make the government more efficient, we should distribute national IDs quickly using the Resident Registration Network. It is true that if we can distribute them safely, accurately, without omissions, without duplications, and cost-effectively, then we should do so, but in practice, it is not that easy. In "Principle 1" of "Haraguchi's Five Principles and OpenID"...
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