Edis Krad writes "While the RealID is still a wobbling threat in the USA, the Japanese already beat them to it. The Juki Net (Residents Registration Network — link in Japanese) has silently been stewed since 2002. The system comprises a 11-digit unique number to identify every citizen in Japan, and the data covers name, address, date of birth and sex.
The system has actually been in place for a while now, with most of the japanese citizens being oblivious there is a network, held by the government, that holds their personal information. It has barely come to the light recently because various residents around the country sued against it, under the concerns of information misuse or leakage. And while an Osaka court has ruled against the system, the Japanese Supreme Court has recently ruledit is not unconstitutional, on the grounds that the data will be used bona-fide and there's no risk of leakage.
While there has been already a registration system for us foreigners in Japan for a long long time now, what astonish me the most is how the government can secretly implement such a system, and the lack of concern of the media and japanese citizens in general."
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