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情報通信行政・郵政行政審議会　電気通信事業部会（第155回）

「インターネットトラブル事例集（2025年版）」の公表

不適正利用対策に関するワーキンググループ（第7回）　開催案内

＜当時の国際情勢＞　事件が起こった１９８０年を振り返ってみよう。まず、イタリアは「鉛の時代」と言われるテロリズムによる社会混乱の時代だった。「鉛の時代」は、１９６０年代終わりから１９８０年代に渡る。テロは、暴力的左翼組織「赤い旅団」からネオ・ファシズム活動も含めて、おおよそ１４０件の事件を起こした。首相アルド・モーロが「赤い旅団」に殺害された事件は、「鉛の時代」を象徴する事件である。（サトウノリコ＝イタリア在住）

　「日本の降伏と原爆投下、ソ連参戦の関係では決定版」―米国の著名な研究者からこう聞いたのが長谷川毅著『暗闘　スターリン、トルーマンと日本降伏』[新版]（2023年5月みすず書房）を手にしたきっかけだ。原著は英語。ハーバード大学出版。ロシア語、フランス語、韓国語にも翻訳されている。大戦後80年の今年読むのにふさわしい。　日本占領に向けた米ソ間の駆け引き、米政府内の天皇制容認派と「無条件降伏」強要派の対立、日本の終戦派と本土決戦派の角遂。六百頁を超える大著だが、読み耽った。　原爆..

柏崎刈羽原発の再稼働をめぐり、新たな問題が浮上した。「特定重大事故等対処施設」（以下、「特重」）の建設に関して、次のような経緯と現状が確認できる。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　例年１２月に都内のデパートを会場に開かれる報道写真展。東京写真記者協会に所属している３４社の記者が撮影した約３００点を展示するもので、石破茂総理が会場を訪れたと報じられた。　年が明けてから横浜市にある新聞博物館（ニュースパーク）に巡回した２０２４年報道写真展に行ってみた。　写真展の展示はいつもどおり、東京写真記者協会賞受賞作品が入り口近くに置かれている。受賞作は能登半島地震で体育館に避難した３人の子が、布団をかぶって絵を描いている写真。写..

都立潮風公園（品川区）で今日、ミャンマーの新年を祝うイベント「ダジャン」が開催された。（藤ヶ谷魁）

This review will assess progress made in implementing the original WSIS vision and outcomes, and determine future directions for creating an inclusive information society.

第44回危険業務従事者叙勲（消防関係）

Update May 5, 2025: In a win for privacy and encryption, the Florida Legislature ended its regular 2025 session on May 2 without passing SB 868 / HB 743.

At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates are hidden behind smoke and mirrors, but this time it’s out in the open: Florida wants a backdoor into any end-to-end encrypted social media platforms that allow accounts for minors. This would likely lead to companies not offering end-to-end encryption to minors at all, making them less safe online.

Encryption is the best tool we have to protect our communication online. It’s just as important for young people as it is for everyone else, and the idea that Florida can “protect” minors by making them less safe is dangerous and dumb.

The bill is not only privacy-invasive, it’s also asking for the impossible. As breaches like Salt Typhoon demonstrate, you cannot provide a backdoor for just the “good guys,” and you certainly cannot do so for just a subset of users under a specific age. After all, minors are likely speaking to their parents and other family members and friends, and they deserve the same sorts of privacy for those conversations as anyone else. Whether social media companies provide “a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption” or choose not to provide end-to-end encryption to minors at all, there’s no way that doesn’t harm the privacy of everyone.

If this all sounds familiar, that’s because we saw a similar attempt from an Attorney General in Nevada last year. Then, like now, the reasoning is that law enforcement needs access to these messages during criminal investigations. But this doesn’t hold true in practice.

In our amicus brief in Nevada, we point out that there are solid arguments that “content oblivious” investigation methods—like user reporting— are “considered more useful than monitoring the contents of users’ communications when it comes to detecting nearly every kind of online abuse.” That remains just as true in Florida today.

Law enforcement can and does already conduct plenty of investigations involving encrypted messages, and even with end-to-end encryption, law enforcement can potentially access the contents of most messages on the sender or receiver’s devices, particularly when they have access to the physical device. The bill also includes measures prohibiting minors from accessing any sort of ephemeral messaging features, like view once options or disappearing messages. But even with those features, users can still report messages or save them. Targeting specific features does nothing to protect the security of minors, but it would potentially harm the privacy of everyone.

SB 868/HB 743 radically expands the scope of Florida’s social media law HB 3, which passed last year and itself has not yet been fully implemented as it currently faces lawsuits challenging its constitutionality. The state was immediately sued after the law’s passage, with challengers arguing the law is an unconstitutional restriction of protected free speech. That lawsuit is ongoing—and it should be a warning sign. Florida should stop coming up with bad ideas that can't be implemented.

Weakening encryption to the point of being useless is not an option. Minors, as well as those around them, deserve the right to speak privately without law enforcement listening in. Florida lawmakers must reject this bill. Instead of playing politics with kids' privacy, they should focus on real, workable protections—like improving consumer privacy laws to protect young people and adults alike, and improving digital literacy in schools.