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Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident — The Guardian

A city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick containing the personal data...

Japan to launch 6G experimental trials with Nokia — Asia Times

Data transmission is planned to be 100,000 times the 5G theoretical maximum, writes Scott Foster. Here is the link: https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/japan-to-launch-6g-experimental-trials-with-nokia/

Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors — ZDNet

The Five Eyes alliance, comprised of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, have made similar calls to tech giants in 2018 and 2019, respectively,...

Japan rolls out Microsoft-developed COVID-19 contact tracing app — The Verge

Japan’s government has released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android, writes Sam Byford. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/19/21296603/japan-covid-19-contact-tracking-app-cocoa-released

SoftBank selects Nokia for 5G in Japan

Japanese telecom behemoth SoftBank has selected Nokia as a strategic partner to drive its commercial 5G offering.