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Monday, 1.07.2024
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As Japan grapples with the issue of how to address privacy issues, the five-year-old Japan-U.S. Privacy and Data Protection Program today launched an important new bilingual information source: the "Japan Privacy Resource" (JPR), which is available at no cost at www.privacyexchange.org.

"Like the world's other democracies, Japan is now grappling with a central dilemma of the Information Age -- how to reap the powerful benefits of information technology in business and government, while also safeguarding citizen and consumer privacy," said Dr. Alan Westin, Director of CSLR's Japan-U.S. Privacy & Data Protection Program and the new JPR. "And this unfolds at a time of major social, technological, institutional, and political change in Japan."

Read more: Emerging Privacy Issues in Japan Are Focus of New Online Resource Center Provide

The Public Management Ministry plans to either abolish or simplify 15 percent of the administrative procedures, or 3,202 processes, handled by the central and local governments, a ministry source said Sunday.

To streamline such procedures, relevant laws and ordinances are to be revised by the end of fiscal 2005, the source said.

Read more: Japan: 15% of govt procedures to be ended or simplified

The Public Management Ministry said Friday it estimated that it would be possible to cut 6,000 central government bureaucrats off the payrolls, saving about 2 billion yen a year, as the result of a project to establish an e-government.

The cuts would be made possible by an integrated system that manages the personnel affairs and salaries of central bureaucrats, which will be introduced by the end of fiscal 2007, the ministry said.

Read more: Japan: Ministry: E-govt can cut 6,000 bureaucrats

Die japanische National Tax Agency hat ihr Online-Angebot für das Einreichen von Steuererklärungen vorerst abgeschaltet.

Read more: Datenschutzpanne bei japanischer Steuerbehörde

Eine japanische Stadt will Pionierrolle spielen

Total Information Awareness hieß ein Programm, für das die Darpa, die Forschungsbehörde des Pentagon, verschiedene Projekte entwickeln wollte. Das Programm ging dem Kongress aber zu weit und er drehte für viele der geplanten Projekte den Geldhahn zu (Kongress streicht Gelder für Pentagon-Überwachungsprojekt). Der Titel des Programms aber scheint für die Fortentwicklung und Umsetzung der Überwachungstechnologie weiterhin maßgeblich zu sein (Die überwachte Stadt). Eine japanische Gemeinde will nun weltweit als Pionier Premiere feiern und alle Schulkinder mit GPS lokalisieren.

Read more: Japan: Schulkinder an die elektronische Leine

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