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  "path": "/t/im-curious-about-online-privacy-in-japan-because-i-wanna-live-there/37138#post_3",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T23:13:09.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I second the advice don’t rely on laws for protection. There are two broad reasons.\n\n  * Legal privacy protections in generality are at the whim of governments to be properly enforced and not be eroded over time.\n  * Laws change over time, activities you do now may become criminal at a later stage, and criminal suspects are afforded far fewer legal privacy protections.\n\n\n\nFurther, even if a country affords good privacy protections to the general population, laws and immigration systems that explicitly target foreigners keep them under surveillance and control and downgrade their human rights protections.\n\nI don’t mean to dissuade you from migrating to Japan but you need better reasons than just legal privacy protections. Perhaps safety, health, freedom, nature, culture, personality fit or career prospects?\n\nI visited Japan and it’s amazing. As a visitor I saw some privacy exists, for instance cash payments, paper train tickets, fewer CCTV cameras in retail businesses, wide acceptance of wearing face masks, and blurring of faces in photos is more commonplace than I see outside Japan.",
  "title": "I'm curious about online privacy in Japan because I wanna live there"
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