The Gifu District Court told the residents about 220 that it was illegal for the police to collect personal information of the opposition residents and pass it on to the company over the construction of a wind power generation facility planned by a subsidiary of Chubu Electric Power in Gifu Prefecture. I ordered the prefecture to compensate for 10,000 yen.
The four residents of Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, gathered personal information such as the work history and ideas of the residents opposed by police officers at the Ogaki Police Station over the construction of a wind power generation facility planned by a subsidiary of Chubu Electric Power in the prefecture. He had filed a lawsuit for damages in Gifu prefecture.
At the trial, the prefecture demanded that the complaint be dismissed, saying that "information gathering is legal in general" without clarifying the facts of collecting and providing information.
In the decision on the 21st, Gifu District Court Judge Shunichi Torii said that the police could not deny the necessity of collecting personal information, while he told the company that it was "aggressive and intentional." It must be said that it is malicious. It is illegal because it violates the freedom that privacy information is not provided to a third party, and ordered the prefecture to pay about 2.2 million yen. I did.
On the other hand, regarding the deletion of personal information that the plaintiff requested from the prefecture etc., he did not admit that the target to be deleted was not specified.
Plaintiff's evaluation of "privacy recognition for all, same amount of compensation"
Following the ruling, the plaintiffs held a press conference in Gifu City around 4 pm.
Among them, Hideki Yamada, the chief of the plaintiffs, said, "This is the first time that a third party has admitted that it is illegal for the police to intentionally provide information and the police say that it is a normal business. I think it's important that the court found that all four plaintiffs had confidentiality of privacy and issued an order to pay the same amount of damages. "
On the other hand, he said that he would like to analyze the fact that the deletion of personal information was rejected, and made clear that he would consider whether to appeal as a plaintiff group.
Gifu Prefectural Police "Seriously take and respond"
Regarding the decision, the Gifu Prefectural Police Headquarters commented, "We take this decision seriously. We will consider the content of the decision before deciding what to do in the future."