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August 1, 2014

[SSJ: 8651] Event at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

From: Kawabata, Eiji
Date: 2014/08/01

Dear SSJ-Forum Members,
I will give a talk on privacy regulation in Australia and Japan on August 6 at the Wilson Center for International Scholars. If you happen to be in Washington, DC on that day, I hope you will come and see the beautiful Wilson Center.

Eiji

Privacy Vs Democracy: The Challenge for Japan and Australia August 06, 2014 Protecting privacy is as critical as information sharing. In a democracy, protecting information goes hand-in-hand with ensuring individual liberty, and the rapid development of digital technology has made the protection of privacy even more important. One key challenge for democratic governance is formulating policies to ensure information privacy protection. In contrast to the United States and Western Europe, where privacy regulation started in the early 1970s, privacy regulation began to develop in Japan and Australia only in the 1980s, but each country has slowly developed comprehensive privacy regulation since then. Japan scholar and Minnesota State University professor Eiji Kawabata will examine the development of privacy policy in Japan and Australia, and assess policies that would be effective in balancing privacy protection and ensuring national security.
Location:
4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
Directions to the Wilson
Center

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Eiji
Kawabata a> // Japan Scholar Associate Professor of Government
and Director of the International Relations Program, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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