Comments on: NEC helps Big Brother watch foreigners in Japan

By: Robot ticketer welcomes cashless thrillseekers ::: Pink Tentacle

Robot ticketer welcomes cashless thrillseekers ::: Pink Tentacle — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:01:07 +0000

[...] NEC could easily equip it with fingerprint scanners and put it to work at immigration counters to gather biometric data on foreigners in Japan. Tourists would love [...]

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:13:23 +0000

Meh. I can't get too worked up over this. I think it's one of the true responsibilities of a national government to keep a record of foreign nationals within its borders.

By: Contamination

Contamination — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:47:17 +0000

I've just added you to a report on the Japan Blogging communities reaction to the fingerprinting issue.
http://www.jdonuts.com/2007/11/fingerprinting-in-japan-blogs-eye-view.html

Hope you get some buzz from it.

By: Red Letter Day

Red Letter Day — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:01:06 +0000

[...] Pink Tentacle posts a picture of the actual hardware being used–but maybe you’ll be seeing first-hand yourself soon enough! Since the post is titled “NEC Helps Big Brother Watch Foreigners in Japan,” seems the blog does not think much of either institution or the new policy itself. [...]

By: drifter

drifter — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:02:21 +0000

there is one word that describes this, in romaji it is written as:

baka

...

By: wojciech szywalski

wojciech szywalski — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:13:08 +0000

Interesting discussion.
Well in my opinion such type of behavior is like giving signal for real terrorists "look, I am target you're looking for".

The truth is that it works like with secured software, always someone crack it. So if some bad guys are going to do something bad, they will do this over the security.

Aga (Canada): Lets live your dollars here http://www.whatryoudoing.com ;)

By: M�s controles de seguridad para entrar en Jap�n

M�s controles de seguridad para entrar en Jap�n — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:27:05 +0000

[...] seguridad en los controles de inmigraci�n de los aeropuertos para los extranjeros. Consiste en un sistema de escaneo de las huellas digitales y captura de una fotograf�a al llegar al pa�s como se puede ver en el video explicativo que ha [...]

By: Elf

Elf — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:52:25 +0000

japan is a nice country

By: Julicat (Canada)

Julicat (Canada) — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:28:22 +0000

Hee - messing with the Americans who ask your length of visitation is fun. I usually give it to them in minutes, rather than weeks or days. They give me this confused, frightened look. I suspect it's because they would have to do math. I wonder if it'd work in Japan? Anyone willing to try it?

By: Contamination

Contamination — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:08:16 +0000

NEC is now on my Do Not Buy list.

http://www.jdonuts.com/2007/11/fingerprinting-in-japan.html