Hello.

I’m Maezawa from the CEO’s office, and I’ll answer as well. Thank you for your question. There’s no benefit to keeping the personal information of applicants who weren’t accepted, so we dispose of it. The reason we can tell when someone reapplies is that some information from their original application remains. But basically, that information is limited to things like their email address, so I don’t think it qualifies as personal information. That’s why, in response to a woman who had been rejected and wanted to reapply, I believe I wrote something along the lines of, “Why not apply again using a different email address and presenting yourself as someone else?” Perhaps that didn’t come across clearly. I also believe I mentioned that applying at a different branch might be better, since reapplying to the same branch could be noticed during the interview. > Even if someone wasn’t accepted, I don’t think it would be difficult to keep their information. As I wrote above, there’s nothing to be gained from keeping it. Come to think of it, I recently heard that some government agency leaked a list of people infected with COVID-19. As long as humans are handling information, mistakes will happen. It could also be stolen by hackers. But if you don’t have the information in the first place, it can’t leak. So the best policy is not to store information you don’t need. What concerns me more these days is how much information companies can gather about people who visit their websites. Apparently, almost every company does this—not just ours. They collect detailed information, such as what time someone visited the company website and which pages they viewed. And since apparently every company does this nowadays, that’s what surprises me the most. If you search for companies that sell those kinds of tools, you’ll get an idea of what information is being collected. I think Google collects the most, but ordinary companies gather a considerable amount of information as well. That’s the kind of age we live in now, so even if we talk about protecting personal information, I think it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep our own information private.