Hiroshi Arimitsu of Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The government has announced plans for a comprehensive identification system to be implemented in 2015. The state has high hopes for the program, including improving social services and achieving equity in tax burdens, although privacy issues are a looming concern. A government panel headed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan…
Category: Featured News
AU: You want a drink? Give us your fingerprints
Natalie O’Brien and Eamonn Duff report: Thousands of clubbers and pub patrons are being forced to submit to fingerprint and photographic scans to enter popular venues, seemingly unaware of the ramifications of handing over their identity. Biometric scanners, once the domain of James Bond movies, are flooding the pub market as the fix-all solution to…
Data Privacy Day 2011: Thanking Twitter and thoughts for the future
Happy Data Privacy Day 2011, everyone! I hope you’ve gotten to participate in interesting events or taken the opportunity to think more about privacy and where we’re going. The past month or so has been somewhat thought-provoking for me in terms of realizing that as much as privacy advocates condemn, complain, and push for privacy…
Privacy study signals a worrying increase in surveillance across Europe
Yesterday I pointed readers to Privacy International’s newly revamped web site and their infographic on surveillance issues by country. On Data Privacy Day (Data Protection Day in Europe), it seems appropriate to also post their press release on the state of privacy protection in the EU: A landmark EU-wide study of national privacy safeguards…