[IP] Japan's new privacy bill

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: IKEDA Nobuo <ikeda-nobuo@rieti.go.jp>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:15:33 +0900
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>


Shumpei Kumon, Jo Ito, and other Internet people in Japan released an
appeal to stop the new privacy bill proposed to the Diet yesterday
because it will infringe the freedom of the Internet.

http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/special/policy-update/007.html

> Under the provisions of this article, administrative punishment would be
> imposed on a Web site operator that has refused an individual's request
> to have certain information about him or her deleted from the Web site.
> 
> Should operators of bulletin board systems and search engines be flooded
> with such information deletion requests in accordance with the law, it
> would become extremely difficult for them to maintain their sites. Not
> only that, scandals involving politicians and companies or any other
> adverse information may disappear from the WWW and the freedom of
> expression in the world of the Internet may be impaired.

--
Ikeda, Nobuo
Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/


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