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Originally Posted by Nyororin
The guy in the video absolutely LOVES to come up with tons of worst case scenarios, and hunt down anything that can be interpreted as as racism and throw a HUGE fit about it.
They don`t just walk past you and scan you. That`s not what these are designed for. They`re designed to reduce paperwork at city and town halls. Right now, it is a huge pain to do anything official as each and every hall has it`s own separate set of records. When you move, you have to go to one town hall and file paperwork that you are moving, and also get copies of all your stuff - then take it over to the new town hall and file everything again. Not just foreigners, mind you - it`s everyone. Japan finally got around to putting in a national system that can do this digitally and with ease (Juki net). The conversion process for Japanese citizens is still in progress, but it`s definitely not a system designed to discriminate against foreigners. There were a bunch of complaints that Japanese citizens got to be in the new cool system but foreigners still had to do all the registration, etc, by hand - so the new foreigner cards are to be incorporated into the Juki net system... Something which has been heralded as a great thing, as it allows government services to be offered to those eligible who would never have been noticed otherwise (as most groups don`t check the foreign resident registry). It also allows foreigners to be linked to their address in a very visible way (just like citizens) so you don`t end up with families looking like they`re single parent because one of the parents is foreign and in a different registry.
And then some people came along and saw RFID, and made the huge leap to "It`s to discriminate against us!!" while totally ignoring the fact that it`s in all the cards, not just foreigner cards.
If the guy in the video is so worried about being "pulled over because he can`t be scanned", why not carry a Juki net card? Because those carry the same chip and are part of the same system as the new foreigner cards... If police really are doing walk by scanning (which is pretty unlikely...) carrying a Juki net card would alleviate the worries.
But nope, he`d rather do some fear mongering.
Anyway, I have no problem with people being against the RFID. That`s fine - but being against it because it is in the foreigner cards, or because you think it is going to be used to discriminate against foreigners (while ignoring the fact that it is in ALL the cards) just makes me shake my head.
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I don't care if its RFID, I'm just scared I might be considered an illegal if I happen to lose mine :P then thrown in jail oO ...me and rooms closed with bars are scary