**MyNumber card system requested to be temporarily suspended, Digital Minister Kono Taro**
*9 May 2023, 11:58 am. NHK NEWS*
* https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230509/k10014061271000.html
**machine-translation:**
>Digital Minister Kono Taro announced that, following a series of problems at convenience stores where a different person’s documents were issued when using a personal number card to obtain a copy of a residence card or other documents, the Digital Agency has requested the company operating the system to temporarily suspend the system in order to investigate the cause.
>The system managed by this company is used by around 200 local authorities across the country, and the Digital Agency has stated that the timing and duration of the suspension will vary from municipality to municipality.
>At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting on May 9th, Digital Minister Kono said: ‘I am very sorry for this serious accident that has damaged the trust of the public. The government would like to proceed with a thorough confirmation of the management system”.
5 comments
What an epic face palm
Well that’s…not great
I applied for it today…..
Bloody hell, I wonder how that happened?
Is it possible that everyone named Taro Sato is issued the same MyNumber number?
Or perhaps it’s an off-by-one bug, where the lucky person with more than one 4 in their MyNumber number automatically gets bumped to a more auspicious MyNumber number, selected at random, because the guy who wrote that bit of code got a bad reading from the fortune teller the previous night…
Understandable Japan would do without the A in ACID