またまた個人情報
昨夜、忘年会を名目に久しぶりに友人と一杯やった。その友人、ほぼ小生と同い年。ところが、未だ現役で、昨年は丸一年フィリピンで過ごし、今春からは長崎に単身赴任と、頑張っている。
その彼が、仕事の合間を利用し、久しぶりに関西に帰って来た。そこで、一杯やろうかと云う事になった訳であるが、実は、その友人、１週間程前に車で正面衝突事故を起こしたらしい。話によると、車は２台ともぐちゃぐちゃで廃車を余儀なくされる程の事故とか。ところが不幸中の幸いと云うか、エアーバックとシートベルトのお蔭で、自分は胸が少し痛む程度、相手はフロントガラスで頭を切り１０針程度縫ったらしいが、意外と元気らしく、大変な出来事ではあるが、後遺症は無さそうで、ホッと一安心と云ったところ。
その事故にまつわる話であるが、友人は、事故後すぐに警察に通報すると同時に家族にも連絡。すると、救急車とパトがすぐに駆けつけ、自分も相手{頭から大量の血を流しており、命に別状は・・・と思えるような状態であったらしい）も別々の救急車で搬送されたらしい。
連絡を受けた家族は、心配でたまらない。同時に、相手の命は、ケガの具合は・・・？。当然の事ながら、警察に尋ねた。すると、警察官曰く、「お答え出来ません。個人情報ですから・・・」。事故の相手が、何処の病院に運ばれ、どの様な状況にあるのか、当事者は知りたいに決まっているし、命に別状は？と考えると、居てもたってもいられない。極々当然の感情だと思う。ところが警察官は、「個人情報ですのでお答えできません・・・」の一点張りであったとの事。
頭にきた友人「何が個人情報だ・・・？、そんな馬鹿な事があるか・・！」、そうとう楯突いたらしい。すると、その警察官、「実は私たちもこれはおかしいと思っているんです。でも、私の立場ではどうしようも・・・」。
そういえば、以前亀岡市で、集団登校の小学生に無免許運転の車が突っ込み、何人かの小学生が亡くなった事件があったが、その事故の際、加害者の親が被害者に謝罪したく、警察官に尋ね、それに応えた警察官が、その後個人情報漏えいで懲戒処分を受けた、との報道があったのを思い出した。
懲戒処分をするくらいだから、法律に詳しい偉い人が、検討に検討、議論に議論を重ねた結果と思われるが、庶民感覚では何処かおかしい。現実にマッチしていないというか、何のための情報で、何のために情報を保護するのか・・・。ただただ、事なかれ主義で、法の条文に照らし合わせ、ひかかりがあれば全て蓋をしてしまうと云う姿勢が顕著に表れた形の結果に思えてならない。
今回のケースでも、警察官の立場になれば、「個人情報ですから・・・」と言わざるをえないのはよく判る。情にほだされて、何処どこの病院でケガの程度は・・・と答え、結果、懲戒処分を受けるような事になったらたまらないものネ・・・。しかし、教えて何か不都合があるのであろうか・・・。それとも、相手を心配するのはお前の勝手で、心配なら勝手に心配しておけばいい、と云うのが正しい考え方なのか。
少なくとも小生は、そんな社会には住みたくない。情の通わない、情を察しようともしない様な社会での生活などまっぴら御免である。
私の尊敬する中村天風先生は、「情味を味わって生きるのが、人生のだいご味である」、「人は常に、生きるための情味をみいだそう」とさえ言っている。
個人情報保護と社会性、公共性の問題はもっともっと議論を重ね、方向性を間違わないようにしないと、本当にギクシャクとした生きにくい社会になってしまう。法律が、現実の社会生活を無視して一人歩きを始めると、恐怖社会に通じる道になることをよくこよく考えて貰いたいと思う。
Last night, I had a drink with my friends for the first time in a long time under the guise of a year-end party. The friend is almost the same age as me. However, he is still in active service, having spent a whole year in the Philippines last year, and has been working hard to move to Nagasaki from this spring.
He came back to the Kansai region for the first time in a long time, taking advantage of his time at work. As a matter of fact, that friend of mine had caused a head-on collision accident with a car about a week ago. According to the story, both cars were a mess, and there was an accident that forced the cars to be scrapped. However, thanks to the airbag and the seatbelt, I felt a slight pain in my chest and the other guy got about 10 stitches on his head from the windshield, but he seemed to be in good spirits and seemed to have no aftereffects, although it was a serious incident.
In the story related to the accident, my friend immediately called the police after the accident, as well as his family. Then, the ambulance and the police immediately rushed to the scene, and the other person (who was bleeding a lot of blood from his head and was in such a state that it seemed like his life was in danger…) was also transported by a different ambulance.
Families who have been contacted are anxious. At the same time, the other person’s life, the condition of the injury…? Naturally, I asked the police. Then, the police officer said, “I can’t answer that. It’s personal information… They want to know what hospital the victim was taken to and what the condition is. When I think about it, I can’t stand still. I think it’s an extremely natural feeling. However, the police officer said that it was a single point of view, “I can’t answer because it is personal information…”.
My pissed off friend: “What’s your personal information…? How can this be? It seems that he was very prodded. Then the policeman said, “Actually, we think this is strange too. But I can’t help it from my point of view…
Come to think of it, there was an incident in Kameoka City where an unlicensed car rammed into a group of schoolchildren and several of them died. In that accident, the parents of the perpetrators wanted to apologize to the victims and asked a police officer.
Since the disciplinary action was taken, it must have been the result of consideration, discussion and debate by a person who is well versed in the law, but there is something wrong with the common man’s sense. It’s not like they don’t match reality, what is the information for and what is the protection of the information for…. It seems to me that this is the result of a “let’s-not-know-what” attitude, in which all the flaws are covered up in light of the text of the law.
In this case, it is understandable that if you are a police officer, you have no choice but to say, “This is personal information… It would be a shame if they were to answer the question, “What is the extent of your injury in any hospital? However, what’s the harm in teaching it… Or is it the right way to think that it is your own choice to worry about the other person, and if you are worried about them, you should worry about them.
At least I don’t want to live in such a society. I don’t want to live in a society where there is no sympathy or sympathy.
Mr. Tenpou Nakamura, whom I respect, even said, “The great taste of life is to live with emotion” and “We should always try to find the emotion to live.
If we don’t discuss the issues of privacy and social and public nature more and more, and make sure we don’t go in the wrong direction, we’re going to have a really awkward and hard-to-live society. If the law begins to walk alone, ignoring real social life, I hope they will think twice about the path that leads to a fearful society.
