| privacy 2002-08-06 |
| Technical glitches and grass-roots resistance atypical of Japan accompanied the debut yesterday of the country's first national identification system, a registry designed to battle bureaucracy by centralizing personal data.
The system will assign an 11-digit identification number to each of Japan's 126 million citizens — much like the U.S. Social Security number — and gather basic information on each in a networked central database: name, address, sex and birth date. |
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