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…
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EU privacy reform: accountability – good for whom?
Stewart Room writes: I’m deep in the process of shaping up the manuscript for the second edition of my first book, which puts me right in the middle of one of those intensive cycles of legal research that knocks a six-months chunk out my life every 18. At the moment I’m deeply occupied with the…
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…
Ph: Mandatory SIM registration pushed after bus blast
Kim Tan and Amita Legaspi report: A senator on Wednesday pushed for the mandatory registration of SIM cards after initial investigations showed that a cellphone was used to detonate the bomb inside a passenger bus the previous day. “This is a wake-up call,” said Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III during a Senate inquiry on the…