Japan to check ‘My Number’ IDs of 54 mil. bank accounts after several wrong links found – The Mainichi

7 comments

1. Don’t worry, your information is safe. I promise….

2. Here we go.

3. I got my My Number (hate the tautology) card for one purpose only: the digital vaccination certificate. Happy to have used that three times for international travel before that whole regime went away. Have been mulling checking out other uses but glad I haven’t actually done anything. The card now goes into a box with warranty cards and kenkou shindan reports and stuff.

4. You have to be a real idiot to link your bank account to the government’s My Number crappy system given its poor low tech design and reliability. And it seems that there are a lot of idiots here.

5. I got 20000 on my ICOCA for signing up and thats the only reason I did.

6. I linked mine to a bank account I don’t use with 4600 yen in it. After all the data leaks I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them.

7. > All cases were caused by human error in the registration process at local government offices

   Here lies the problem, the system should have been totally automated from day one. Each citizen/resident gets a new My Number automatically and it gets sent (automatically) to any agency that requires it.
   No manual data entry should have ever been required.