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Abstract

An information storing apparatus for judging who requests personal information and for setting an access level for the personal information for the requester. The information storing apparatus includes: a personal information storing section storing thereon the personal information which is to be disclosed to predetermined accessible persons; an accessible person information storing section storing thereon accessible person characteristic information indicating a physical characteristic of each of the plurality of accessible persons; a requester authentication section for receiving requester characteristic information indicating a physical characteristic of a requester who requests the personal information, and for performing authentication processing of the requester using the requester characteristic information and the accessible person characteristic information stored on the accessible person information storing section; an access level setting section for setting an access level, which is a level of the personal information to be disclosed to the requester, when the requester authentication section authenticates the requester as the accessible person; and a personal information output section for outputting a part of the personal information stored on the personal information storing section to the requester in accordance with the access level set-up by the access level setting section.

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