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Eleven digits to an uproar

Japan has flipped the switch on a new national computerized registry, but without any accompanying laws to protect that information from misuse. This has lead to many protests:

Today, protesters compared the residential registry to a 10-digit computerized identification system for cows, which was adopted last fall in an effort to contain mad cow disease. “Cows are 10-digit numbers and human beings are 11 digits,’ read one protest banner outside the Public Management Ministry, the agency responsible for creating the network.

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3 Responses to “Eleven digits to an uproar”

  1. Nick says:
    August 6, 2002 at 2:30 pm

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  2. Jon says:
    August 6, 2002 at 6:33 pm

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  3. Don says:
    August 6, 2002 at 10:14 pm

    OK, so they gave the people 11 digit ID numbers and the cows 10 digit ID numbers. What does it say for us that we in America have 9 digit ID numbers?