The government’s campaign to get more people to apply for My Number identification cards, which streamline the use of the My Number system in social security and taxation matters, hasn’t been entirely successful, mainly owing to the public’s concern over privacy issues. Every resident of Japan has been issued a 12-digit My Number, so the trick is to persuade people to apply for the card, which contains a chip that will someday connect to individual information in the government’s database. Some people who applied for the card in order to receive their earlier this year found that it was […]
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