Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches
Japan's minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Tono Karo, has apologized after a government app breached citizens' privacy.by the municipal government of Kodaira City, allows residents to print documents such as certificates that prove they've paid taxes.
Fujitsu Japan developed and operates the service, which preps PDF files in response to user requests and then despatches them to printers in convenience stores. The service is not universal: local governments opt in to deploy it. Convenience stores host multifunction printers to produce the documents. As convenience stores are utterly ubiquitous across Japan, the service is a very … erm … convenient way to access government documents.At a press conference yesterday the minister acknowledged that the service has printed documents belonging to people other than those who requested the service on many occasions – he mentioned 13 errors in one municipality alone.
He's therefore suspended the service and told Fujitsu to fix the service and stop breaching privacy. Quickly.
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