http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=165

Networked Information Processing and Changing Attitudes to Privacy in
Japan

Thursday 14 February 2008 15:30 – 17:00

Dr Andrew A. Adams, School of Systems Engineering, The University of
Reading

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS.
This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please
email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

Dr Adams has just spent nine months visiting Meiji University in
Tokyo, funded by a Global Research Award from the Royal Academy of
Engineering. He has been studying the legal and social approach to
privacy of electronic data in Japan and will present some of the
results of his study.

There is a myth amongst researchers that there is no such thing as
‘Privacy’ in Japan. Dr Adams refutes that and shows that the advent
of networked information processing of personal data has brought
Japanese attitudes to information privacy to a highly similar
position to Western attitudes.

Grounded in the social and psychological literature about Japan, this
work explains the emergence of Japanese legal protection for personal
data in recent years.