Tokyo Setagaya Ward Employee Census "Response Status Confirmation Table" Lost One October 26, 19:30
Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, announced that a ward employee who is a census investigator has lost a document containing the name and address of the head of the household to be surveyed.
The ward reported to the police and apologized to the target households.
According to Setagaya Ward, on the 12th of this month, when a ward employee who was a census investigator performed a thank-you note and a reminder letter for the investigation at an apartment in the ward, an A4 called "Response Status Confirmation Table" I lost one size document.
The "Response Status Confirmation Table" contained the names and addresses of the heads of households for 10 households who had completed the survey on the Internet, so the ward submitted a loss report to the police and was eligible. It means that they took measures such as directly apologizing to the households that became the victims and writing an apology letter.
In Setagaya Ward, there was a case in which a census investigator lost materials such as the address of the target household last month, and in the ward, the time for a briefing session for investigators due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection occurred. It is possible that the information on the handling of personal information was not fully explained due to insufficient information.
The ward takes this situation very seriously, and plans to thoroughly prevent recurrence by considering the use of tablet terminals instead of paper materials in the future.