At the request of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Apple CEO Tim Cook agreed to put Japan’s “My Number” identification card functions onto iPhones, Japan’s top government spokesperson said on Thursday.
The Japanese government plans to integrate people’s tax and social security data into a single identification card to boost administrative efficiency.
The comment from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi comes after Kishida’s video conference earlier in the day with Cook.
“Prime Minister Kishida and Mr. Tim Cook confirmed that My Number card functions will be put on iPhones next spring,” Hayashi told a regular news conference.
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MacDailyNews Take: Tracktastic!
“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.” ― Philip K. Dick
“As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people than the people do themselves. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.” ― Marshall McLuhan
“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.” ― Glenn Greenwald
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Just like an image of someone’s face being slowly transformed to some other completely different face, our rights and privileges are slowly being transformed into a fascist state.
Glen Greenwald puts it so simply.
The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.” ― Glenn Greenwald
Not for much longer.