Jun Hongo reports: The government may look into revising the Personal Information Protection Law if some of its provisions are stopping municipalities from ascertaining the status of “missing” centenarians and other pension recipients, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku hinted Thursday. “If (the law) is impeding the investigations by local governments, we need to consider our…
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UK: Choosing data protection over child protection
Matilda Battersby writes: ContactPoint, a £224 million government database containing records of all UK children, will be switched off at noon today. One of the boldest moves made so far by the new Coalition Government in its first 100 days of power, the decision to scrap Labour’s ambitious child protection initiative is being greeted with…
HK: Octopus chief resigns over data sales scandal, revenue donated to charity
Amy Wong reports: The chief executive of Hong Kong Octopus Holdings Ltd. has resigned over its scandal of selling almost two million customer’s private data to third party, and the firm will donate HK$44 million ($5.7 million) in revenue to charity. […] The Octopus scandal has escalated with Chan on July 26 admitting that the…
UK: Couple mistakenly received confidential child access documents
Jessica Porter reports: A shocked couple have been sent another family’s confidential details about access to their five-year-old and seven-year-old children. Fred Dobbinson and Carol Bleasdale, of Melrose Cresent, Seaham, were sent the documents along with Fred’s divorce papers. […] The papers from the court house, in John Street, Sunderland, discuss supervised visits which could…