Ein schönes Beispiel für den Verstoß gegen datenschutzrechtliche Lösch-, Verschwiegenheits- und Sicherungsverpflichtungen, die eine Bibliothek treffen, ist dieser Fall aus Japan. Die Schul-Lesegewohnheiten des berühmten japanischen Literaten Haruki Murakami wurden nun durch eine Zeitung der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert, weil sie an die Ausleihkärtchen der Schulbibliothek, die eigentlich vernichtet werden sollten, gelangt ist. Die japanische Library Association hat sich entschieden dagegen gewandt.
Librarians in uproar after borrowing record of Haruki Murakami is leaked
Books the celebrated Japanese author borrowed from a library in Kobe when he was a schoolboy have been revealed by a newspaper
Librarians in Japan have ditched their traditional regard for silence to accuse a newspaper of violating the privacy of Haruki Murakami, Japan’s best-known contemporary writer, after it revealed his teenage reading habits. …
The Kobe Shimbun [=japan. Zeitung] revealed Murakami’s reading habits of half a century ago after obtaining the cards from the school’s library that carried borrower entries under the author’s name, Japanese media reported.
The newspaper defended its actions, but the Japan Librarian Association accused it of violating the privacy of Murakami and other students whose names appear on the cards.
“Disclosing the records of what books were read by a user, without the individual’s consent, violates the person’s privacy,” said an association report. …
The cards were apparently leaked to the paper after a volunteer who once taught at the school came across them while he was sorting out old library books that were to be thrown away. …
Der ganze Artikel im Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/librarians-in-uproar-after-borrowing-record-of-haruki-murakami-is-leaked
http://www.jla.or.jp/portals/0/html/jiyu/toshocard2015.html (also wenn man japanisch kann)
(Hinweis von Patrizia Wiesner-Ledermann. Vielen Dank!)