Engadget RSS Feed http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2013 AOL Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[Japan won't allow Sony to turn PSN back on until it's assured it's safe]]> http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/japan-wont-allow-sony-to-turn-psn-back-on-until-its-assured-it/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/japan-wont-allow-sony-to-turn-psn-back-on-until-its-assured-it/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/16/japan-wont-allow-sony-to-turn-psn-back-on-until-its-assured-it/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Sony may be busy flipping the PlayStation Network switch back to the "on" position around the globe, but one locale where it won't be doing so just yet is its homeland of Japan. The Dow Jones newshounds report that the Japanese government refuses to allow Sony to reactivate its ailing network until satisfaction is reached on a couple of outstanding issues. The first is that the company's promised counter-hacking measures announced on May 1st have not yet been fully enacted -- though details of what has or hasn't been done yet are understandably unavailable -- and the second is that Japan wants to see further preventive measures taken to ensure users' credit card numbers and other private data won't be exposed through their use of Sony's online services again. These sound like rational demands to us, and Sony is already in talks with the authorities to make sure it lives up to their expectations.

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