{"id":16708,"date":"2021-06-21T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16708"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T17:07:53","slug":"my-sna-vm-column-23-gaijin-card-reader-app-obliterates-privacy-june-21-2021-on-how-nj-privacy-is-of-so-little-concern-that-the-govt-has-enabled-anyone-to-swipe-gaijin-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16708","title":{"rendered":"My SNA VM Column 23: “Gaijin Card Reader App Obliterates Privacy,” June 21, 2021, on how NJ privacy is of so little concern that the Govt. has enabled anyone to swipe Gaijin Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. As you may have heard, the Justice Ministry has enabled the general public to collect your personal data from your “Gaijin Cards” via downloadable app<\/a>. That’s the subject of my most recent SNA column, out today. Opening:<\/p>\n

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\nVisible Minorities: Gaijin Card Reader App Obliterates Privacy<\/strong>
\nBy Debito Arudou<\/strong>
\nShingetsu News Agency, June 21, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPrivacy in Japan\u2026 is not being seen.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This quote, usually attributed to former US Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, was made in the context of an overcrowded Japan in his day, used to explain the stark difference between public and private behaviors of Japanese (sneaking off, for example, to love hotels for a bit of private time).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But privacy is taken quite seriously in Japan, especially if it will damage a reputation. Television broadcasts of criminal suspects on perp walks often have their handcuffs blurred, since the person hasn\u2019t been convicted yet. Media reporting on businesses accused of unsavory activities (such as food poisoning or putting up \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs) often refuse to report their company names so it doesn\u2019t adversely affect their sales. Even people who park their cars in those love hotels may find themselves in a parking garage with curtains, or with their license plates covered up by pieces of plywood provided by the establishment.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So why doesn\u2019t this concern for privacy apply to foreign residents? (Examples of egregious violations of privacy by nationality, contrasted with all the legal protections for citizens, follow. Then we get to the new Gaijin Card Reader App<\/a>…)<\/em><\/strong>
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Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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SNA: \u201cPrivacy in Japan\u2026 is not being seen.\u201d This quote, usually attributed to former US Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, was made in the context of an overcrowded Japan in his day, used to explain the stark difference between public and private behaviors of Japanese (sneaking off, for example, to love hotels for a bit of private time). <\/p>\n

But privacy is taken quite seriously in Japan, especially if it will damage a reputation. Television broadcasts of criminal suspects on perp walks often have their handcuffs blurred, since the person hasn\u2019t been convicted yet. Media reporting on businesses accused of unsavory activities (such as food poisoning or putting up \u201cJapanese Only\u201d signs) often refuse to report their company names so it doesn\u2019t adversely affect their sales. Even people who park their cars in those love hotels may find themselves in a parking garage with curtains, or with their license plates covered up by pieces of plywood provided by the establishment.<\/p>\n

So why doesn\u2019t this concern for privacy apply to foreign residents? (Examples of egregious violations of privacy by nationality, contrasted with all the legal protections for citizens, follow. Then we get to the new Gaijin Card Reader App…)
\nRest is at http:\/\/shingetsunewsagency.com\/2021\/06\/21\/visible-minorities-gaijin-card-reader-app-obliterates-privacy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,43,36,33,5,26,4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16718,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions\/16718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}