Friday December 30, 2022 9:41 americium PST by

When Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Japan earlier this month, helium met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to sermon the App Store, Apple's investments successful Japan, and iPhone features that could beryllium adopted successful the future, according to a caller study from Nikkei.

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Kishida asked Cook to alteration a integer mentation of Japan's My Number recognition cards, which are issued to each Japanese residents. He wants Cook to enactment the cards connected the ‌iPhone‌, allowing them to beryllium added to the Wallet app overmuch similar IDs successful immoderate U.S. states.

Japan has been aiming to summation adoption of the My Number cards, which diagnostic each person's 12-digit ID number. Japan has offered the cards since 2016, but arsenic of 2022, lone 49 percent of radical person signed up. Adding My Number cards to the Wallet app could promote much radical to usage the strategy due to the fact that it would marque them much convenient and perchance easier to obtain, but immoderate person privateness concerns.

Japan wants to usage the My Number cards to store each kinds of idiosyncratic information, from wellness security information to banking info, and they diagnostic the user's photo, name, address, and day of birth, and determination are imaginable issues with information leaks.

Cook told Kishida that helium would enactment connected adding My Number cards to the ‌iPhone‌, but helium said said that Apple has "strong concerns" implicit the handling of My Number IDs. He besides reportedly urged Kishida to marque definite that regulations surrounding app organisation bash not undermine the privateness and information of ‌iPhone‌ users.

The Japanese authorities has been concerned with Apple and Google's power implicit the smartphone operating strategy market, and has projected rules that would necessitate Apple to let third-party app stores. Apple successful a connection astatine the clip said that it would "engage constructively with the Japanese government." Japan is preparing a last study connected Apple's ‌App Store‌ rules, gathering opinions from the nationalist and holding ongoing discussions, truthful it is not a astonishment that Cook is aiming to sway Kishida to wantonness authorities that Apple believes would undermine the information of the ‌App Store‌.

Cook and Kishida besides spoke astir Apple's investments successful the country, with Cook pointing retired that Apple has invested much than $100 cardinal successful Japanese proviso chains implicit the people of the past 5 years, and that it volition proceed to marque its Japanese investments a priority.

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