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Japan's new privacy bill
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 04:21:21 -0400
------ Forwarded Message 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/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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