panopticon

July 10のThe Japan Times Online記事 "Japan’s discriminatory koseki registry system looks ever more outdated" に気になる単語が出てきました。
The koseki made every Japanese family an open book -- quite literally. Until access restrictions were introduced in 1976, anyone could pay the statutory fee and peruse another person’s koseki. Not only that, but in the past, far more information was recorded in the registry. Unusual deaths and different categories of children born out of wedlock were logged, and until 1963 criminal convictions were also recorded, staining the entire family. (Now criminal records are maintained in a separate registry.) The koseki was thus part of a panopticon-like system in which everyone would feel that they were being monitored but could also participate in the monitoring process.
"panopticon" は監視されている気がするシステム？　早速辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.: The panopticon, an 18 th-century prison design dominated by a central viewing tower, called for an elimination of privacy and constant surveillance of prisoners.
・Vocabulary.com: If your school is designed as a panopticon, it means that if you stand in the middle of the building, you can see every single classroom.
Use the noun panopticon to talk about a circular building ? especially a prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station. Eighteenth century philosopher Jeremy Bentham dreamed up the idea and was kind enough to bequeath us the word as well, from the Greek pan, or "all," and optikon, "of or for sight."
戸籍制度が "panopticon-like system" と感じたことはありませんが、新しく導入されたマイナンバー制度は "panopticon-like system" と言えるかも知れません。