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Company X, which is “a business operator handling personal information,” held a seminar
for individual customers to promote the sales of their products, which included a questionnaire for the participants at the end. The questionnaire sheet stated that the purpose for obtaining personal information was to offer information about future products; the company
asked for the customer’s name, address, telephone number, and whether or not they wanted
the information.
Which of the following actions by Company X is illegal in light of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information?
a) A list of customers was created from the collected questionnaires, and direct mails
were sent to the customers who wanted information about products.
b) The collected questionnaires and the customer list created after the seminar were
stored in a locker with a key, except when they were necessary.
c) For sales promotion of the product by Company Y, which is an associated company
of Company X, Company X handed the customer list created from the collected questionnaires over to Company Y based on the judgment of Company X.
d) A customer who had wanted information about products contacted Company X to
change the address, so Company X changed the customer list after verifying the identity of the customer and the desire to receive further information.
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Which of the following describes the characteristics of the QR code in the figure shown below?
a) It compresses and symbolizes an image and is used for communication of information.
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b It contains only about 10 bytes of information and is used for encryption of commercial product codes.
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c It is a kind of two-dimensional bar code and can record much information, including
alphanumeric characters, Kanji characters, etc.
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d It is the code developed for use in IC tags and can be used for noncontact-based merchandise management.
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