Ryan Ginstrom <ryan@ginstrom.com> wrote:

> "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1117207043.054928.308590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Due to the new Information Protection Act, or whatever it's called in
> > English or Japanese, we have had a message from on high that the lists
> > of home addresses of our team members is Personal Information, thus
> > cannot be taken out of the company without sacrificing your first-born.
> 
> All I know is it's been providing me with a lot of work these days, as every
> high-tech company with more than 2 employees is scrambling to come up with a
> "privacy policy." Since they all seem to be copying each other, I'm getting
> paid to do a lot of copying and pasting...
> 
> The thing is, when you read these policies it doesn't make you feel any
> better. They basically say, yeah, we won't give your information out to
> anyone, unless it's one of our contractors and they promise to use it
> nicely, or the government asks us for it, or we really really feel like it
> and we put a notice up on an obscure corner of our Website.

Basically "business as usual, so don't say we didn't warn you"?

The one that worried me is from a company that has taken this
opportunity to slip in a clause stating that the translator will be
liable for any damages incurring from a leakage of that company's
private info. 

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