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選挙では消費税減税をうたった高市早苗首相ですが、減税は一向に進みません。筆者によると、消費税率を０％にした場合、POSシステムに影響が出るらしいです。かといってこのままでいいわけないので、早めの準備を求む。 　食料品への […]

　59年にわたって続いた月刊誌『マスコミ市民』が２０２６年３月号で終わりを迎えた。最後の半年、わたしはにわか編集委員として最後を看取る役割の一端を任された。この老舗の雑誌がどんな足跡を刻んできたのかを確かめたくて、創刊号 […]

　眩いばかりの陽光と、心地よいそよ風を直に感じたくて、海に面する２階の仕事場の窓を開け放し、原稿に向かっていた。するとチュピチュピーッという声とともに、黒い三角形の影が矢のような速さで部屋の中に入り、ひと回りした後、また […]

リコー製Web Image Monitorを実装している複数のレーザープリンタおよび複合機（MFP）には、オープンリダイレクトの脆弱性が存在します。

2026年04月28日（現地時間）、米国CISAがCISA ICS Advisory / ICS Medical Advisoryを公表しました。

IDrive Cloud Backup Client for Windowsには権限昇格の脆弱性が存在します。

JPCERT/CCが提供するLogonTracerには、複数の脆弱性があります。この問題は、当該製品を修正済みのバージョンに更新することで解決します。詳細は、JPCERT/CCが提供する情報を参照してください。

法務省が「不法滞在者ゼロプラン」を発表してから来月で1年が経過する。（藤ヶ谷魁）

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 recently announced a study addressing the killings and attacks against Palestinian journalists and media workers, the destruction of media infrastructure in Gaza, and the production and dissemination of narratives that may enable, justify, or incite international crimes. 

As part of this consultation, EFF contributed a submission that identifies a significant deterioration of press freedom and free expression in the period since October 2023, including an increase in censorship and wave of killings of journalists; adding to an already pervasive censorship and surveillance regime for Palestinians. 

In particular, concerns raised in our submission relate to:

1. Government takedown requests 
2. Disinformation and content moderation
3. Attacks on internet infrastructure

The concerns about censorship in Palestine are ever increasing, and include multiple international forums. Ending the deliberate digital isolation of the Palestinian people is critical to protecting fundamental human rights.

Read the briefing in full here.

2026年度 総合職事務系官庁訪問についての情報を更新しました。

官民競争入札等監理委員会事務局総務担当 非常勤職員採用情報

情報通信審議会　情報通信技術分科会　IPネットワーク設備委員会 電気通信事業におけるパブリッククラウドシステム利用に関する検討作業班（第3回）

高齢者・障害者向けの新たなICT機器等の研究開発に対する補助金 「デジタル・ディバイド解消のための技術等研究開発推進事業」の補助金交付決定

令和8年に申請を受け付けるBS放送に係る基幹放送局に関する免許方針を定める訓令案等に関する意見募集

2025年度　青少年のインターネット・リテラシー指標等に係る調査結果の公表

令和8年岩手県大槌町の林野火災による被害に係る普通交付税（6月定例交付分）の繰上げ交付

A U.S. citizen who teaches Persian poetry classes online is suddenly unable to receive payments or access funds when his account is flagged and frozen by Paypal and its subsidiary Venmo. A Muslim city councilwoman in New York City has a Venmo payment blocked because she uses the name of a Bangladeshi restaurant in the transaction. Online hubs for erotic storytelling repeatedly lose their payment accounts. Others active in drug legalization fights struggle to keep their bank accounts.

These may sound like one-off issues, but they are not. They occur with frightening regularity, as former EFF Activism Director and Chief Program Officer, Rainey Reitman, who left EFF in 2022, describes in her new book, Transaction Denied. The book sheds new light on a serious problem that often hides in the shadows, and pushes us to ask an increasingly important question: “Is it ever OK for financial intermediaries to act as the arbiters of online expression?"  

Both a storyteller and an advocate, Rainey exposes hidden systems of power that shape our choices, our speech, and, ultimately, our society. - Cindy Cohn

Reitman makes her case about the impact of financial institutions and payment intermediaries shutting down accounts and inhibiting transactions through compelling individual stories, some of which have not been shared before. The people impacted are diverse: authors, teachers, journalists, elected politicians, and more are suddenly unable to retrieve or receive funds, with little explanation, transparency, or recourse. Reitman shows the reasons are frequently speech-related, resulting often from arbitrary corporate policy, a broad (mis)interpretation of the law, or in response to pressure from anti-speech advocates. 

In the example of the Persian poetry teacher, the blocking is due to the highly risk averse interpretation of U.S. sanctions on Iran—sanctions aimed at deterring weapons development or terrorism instead snared a poetry professor and a New York city councilwoman. Reitman demonstrates how these sanctions, and others, have an outsized impact on Muslims.

But Transaction Denied is also a guide for those interested in fighting for free speech. The book covers over a decade of successful campaigns and shows that advocacy can win the day—and is sometimes necessary to counter pro-censorship campaigns. Reitman offers a behind-the-scenes view of the campaign to help restore the Stripe account of the Nifty Archive Alliance, a nonprofit which supports the Nifty Archive, a hub of erotic storytelling for the queer community since 1992. She covers EFF's successful coalition and campaign to restore the PayPal account of Smashwords, a hub for self-published fiction. And in what has become a critical moment for free speech and free press, she describes how several EFF staff members and two EFF board members became the seed for a new nonprofit, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which continues to partner with EFF today in advancing the rights of journalists.

It’s a banner time for books by EFF staff members and friends. If you're concerned about how online privacy has changed over the last three decades, read EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's book, Privacy Defender, released in May. (All proceeds from the sale of hard copies of Privacy’s Defender are being donated to EFF, so your book order will help EFF continue fighting for the principles Cindy holds dear.) If you are worried about the individuals trapped in a system where massive financial companies can shut down their individual accounts, effectively locking up their access to money, based entirely on their speech, grab Transaction Denied, released earlier this month, at Beacon Press, Amazon, and Bookshop.org. (Half of the author proceeds go to Freedom of the Press Foundation.) 

More likely—you'll want both books on your shelf. Happy reading! 

　　ご存じ長年TBS『報道特集』キャスターを務めたテレビ記者・金平さんが国内各地で行った講演の記録だ。　聴衆は、労働組合や市民団体、高校生などと幅広いが、問題意識は一貫している。本書のサブタイトルにある通り「SNS」をめぐる問題と「公共」とされるものが溶け出してしまっている問題だ。そして、それらに対峙すべきメディア自体が抱える問題も。　SNSが席巻する様は今まで私たちが社会の基盤を形成していると信じてきたものが、見る影もなく崩れ去ろうとするかのようだ。そこに金平さんが極めて危..