Police routinely stopped foreign nationals for questioning based on racial profiling

“Even in the absence of reasonable suspicion, it was routine practice to stop foreigners simply for walking down the street and demand that they show their residence cards.” A former Aichi Prefectural Police officer testified to this effect.

Proposed amendment to privacy law could pose risk of AI-driven privacy violations

The proposed amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information would allow “sensitive personal information” to be provided to third parties in its “raw” form, without anonymization or the individual’s consent, for the purposes of AI development or statistical analysis.

LDP-‘Ishin’ coalition forcibly begins Diet deliberations on bill to reduce number of Lower House seats

In the absence of opposition lawmakers, the ruling Liberal Democratic and “Nippon Ishin no Kai” parties forced the start of Diet deliberations on a bill to reduce the number of proportional representation seats in the House of Representatives.