Responsibility now arrives before the addressee: how print shops became “data couriers”
Paper volumes may fall, but personal data doesn’t. In DM, invoices, and print BPO, how much “responsibility-from-the-moment-we-receive-it” should a printer accept?
“Leaks are mainly hacking, so printing isn’t involved.” The numbers no longer let us say that with confidence. In P-Mark incident tallies, “paper” remains the largest share by medium. The center of gravity isn’t the server—it’s still insertion, sorting, mailing, and day-to-day operations.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
A single CC/BCC mistake—putting BCC recipients into CC—was enough to expose 45 email addresses in work connected to Japan’s Official Gazette. The cause was described as “a sending error by staff at a contractor.”
The Official Gazette is where the Japanese government publishes “official notices” such as laws and personnel decisions. Printers are involved in producing and distributing it. What makes this case hit printers hard isn’t that the Gazette symbolizes the “author…
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