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August 06, 2002
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Privacy protestors want to junk Juki Net
Perry de Havilland (London)  Asian affairs • Privacy & Panopticon

As of yesterday, the Japanese government brought a nightmarish integrated national resident registry network system on-line called Juki Net. Privacy activists in Japan see this as an alarming tool in the hands of a state with a long history of intrusion into civil society and even some municipal authorities are uneasy about the privacy implications.

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