Juki Net Invades Privacy

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"If the resident file code number is used as a master key to collect information, various information for each resident can be accumulated in an instant and leave each resident in a condition similar to being completely naked before an administrative agency,"
Asahi: Court: Juki Net violates privacy
KANAZAWA-In an unprecedented ruling, the Kanazawa District Court on Monday prohibited the Ishikawa prefectural government from providing personal information to the Basic Residential Registers Network System without the consent of residents. The ruling was the first time a court has recognized invasion of privacy in connection with the online system known widely as the Juki Net... The plaintiffs demanded that their personal information be deleted from the Juki Net plus 220,000 yen each in compensation. The district court rejected the compensation request, but it ordered LASDEC to erase the personal information of the plaintiffs stored on magnetic discs...more...

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No it doesn't

Asahi: Nagoya court: Info on Juki Net lawful
Just a day after the Kanazawa District Court ruled that the online database called the Juki Net violates the personal privacy of residents opposed to the system, the Nagoya District Court ruled completely opposite on the matter... "It cannot be recognized that the Juki Net system violated the right of privacy or that there is the danger of that happening," Presiding Judge Susumu Nishio said. The ruling showed that a judicial consensus had not yet been reached on whether the Juki Net violates Article 13 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of privacy.

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Asahi: Privacy issue
It seems that anyone can view basic resident registers. The problem is that not everyone is honest and crimes do occur. What's in a name, you may well ask. When that information is freely available, along with your address, date of birth and sex, a lot can go wrong...Under the law, anyone meeting a few basic requirements can ask to scan four items of personal information on every citizen in this country: their name, address, date of birth and sex. Data are also arranged by household. And therein lies a problem: Not everybody is honest...A case in point concerns a man in Aichi Prefecture who was arrested in February over the sexual abuse of a girl. It turned out the man had applied to view the registers of households in Nagoya that were occupied by single mothers...more...

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Asahi: 62% of viewers of resident registers were private business operators
More than 60 percent of requests to view personal data on resident registers were filed by private business operators, such as direct-mail senders, in fiscal 2004, a government survey showed. The high percentage will likely heighten calls to restrict public viewing on the registers, which carry names, addresses, sex and birth dates of residents. The survey, conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, also showed that less than 40 percent of municipalities confirmed the operating status of the private companies seeking to view residents' information. Currently, in principle, the resident registers can be read without administrative restrictions...more...