Japan still has about 1,900 provisions in its laws _requiring_ data to be submitted on floppy disks and other storage media.
Japan may be known for its advanced technologies, but government agencies still require some data to be submitted or saved on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. That is about to end.
“Where can you buy floppy disks these days?” Digital Affairs Minister Taro Kono told reporters on Tuesday. “We will change [these rules] promptly.”
Why am I not surprised? First time I had seen a laptop with a CD drive in it for probably more than five years or so was the fresh company-issued machines at work. For precisely the same silly reason as this article describes.
Fun fact; this also exist in the US and I’m sure other countries as well. A lot of places wrote laws at some point specifying the use of what was at the time the best digital medium for files, and largely couldn’t be arsed to fix it until MUCH later or still haven’t.
1900 provisions is still quite a bit though and probably broader in scope than a lot of these legacy flows in other gov’ts; good they’re going to proactively change it. But at any rate if you’ve been involved in industries which have strict requirements for handling of information that are a pain or require a specific political process to change, you’ll know this kind of thing isn’t nearly as much of a wacky OnLY iN JaPaN thing as some would think.
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Japan still has about 1,900 provisions in its laws _requiring_ data to be submitted on floppy disks and other storage media.
Japan may be known for its advanced technologies, but government agencies still require some data to be submitted or saved on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. That is about to end.
“Where can you buy floppy disks these days?” Digital Affairs Minister Taro Kono told reporters on Tuesday. “We will change [these rules] promptly.”
Why am I not surprised? First time I had seen a laptop with a CD drive in it for probably more than five years or so was the fresh company-issued machines at work. For precisely the same silly reason as this article describes.
Fun fact; this also exist in the US and I’m sure other countries as well. A lot of places wrote laws at some point specifying the use of what was at the time the best digital medium for files, and largely couldn’t be arsed to fix it until MUCH later or still haven’t.
1900 provisions is still quite a bit though and probably broader in scope than a lot of these legacy flows in other gov’ts; good they’re going to proactively change it. But at any rate if you’ve been involved in industries which have strict requirements for handling of information that are a pain or require a specific political process to change, you’ll know this kind of thing isn’t nearly as much of a wacky OnLY iN JaPaN thing as some would think.