Nagano’s new citizen-tracking system is not only invasive of privacy, it’s also incompetently secured and exposes citizen data to potential corruption by malefactors.
Tests by the prefecture to infiltrate the system found that access to private information on residents was accessible with local area network (LAN) connections, both from within and outside local body offices.
“(The network) is in a dangerous situation in which personal information can be stolen,” specialists hired by the prefecture wrote in an evaluation of the access tests…
Part of the tests also reportedly showed that it was possible to falsify personal data in the network and send it to servers nationwide.