経済産業省は、工場を建設する目的で平成27年（1月～12月期）に1,000平方メートル以上の用地を取得した製造業、ガス業、熱供給業、電気業の事業者を対象に「工場立地動向調査」を実施し、結果を取りまとめました。

4月5日から9日まで、韓国のソウルにおいて、日中韓自由貿易協定(FTA)交渉の第10回交渉会合(局長/局次長会合)が開催されます。

経済産業省は、昨年10月に「活力あふれる『ビンテージ・ソサエティ』の実現に向けた取組に係る研究会」を立ち上げ、検討を重ね、今般報告書をとりまとめました。

交通事故の削減や渋滞緩和、環境負荷低減等の課題解決が期待される協調ITS（※）の実現普及に必要とされる地図データベースの整備や維持・更新のコスト削減に役立つ日本発の国際規格が制定されました。

平成28年3月4日に、東京電力からありました改正電気事業法に基づく会社分割に係る申請について、このたび申請のとおり認可しました。

電気通信紛争処理委員会（第256回）

情報通信審議会　情報通信技術分科会　電波有効利用委員会無線設備の認証の在り方検討作業班（第4回）・ 電波監視作業班（第6回）合同会議

電気通信紛争処理委員会（第256回）の開催について

　世界で民主主義と自由主義が揺らいでいる。気鋭の経済学者である著者は、その理由をフェイクファシズムの台頭にあると説く。フェイクファシズムとは何か。独裁的指導者が私利的目的のために使う政治手法で、特徴は３つあるという。　①山ほど嘘をつく②陰謀論と同情論をまき散らす③「敵友概念」で対立構造をつくる。　ナチスのファシズムは暴力装置を多用した。だが、最近はＳＮＳを味方にし、フェイクを拡散することで力を得ている。この中心に座るのが、米国トランプ大統領であるというわけだ。　気を抜けば日本..

国軍と民主派、少数民族武装組織の内戦が激化するミャンマーで、国民の5人に1人が深刻な食料不安に直面していることが、国連人道問題調整事務所（OCHA）が16日に発表した最新の情勢報告で明らかになった。特に、40万以上とされる5歳未満の幼児や妊産婦が重度の栄養失調に陥る可能性が高まっているという。ミャンマージャポンが報じた。

One of our favorite—and most important—things that we do at EFF is to work toward a better future. It can be easy to get caught up in all the crazy things that are happening in the moment, especially with the fires that need to be put out. But it’s just as important to keep our eyes on new technologies, how they are impacting digital rights, and how we can ensure that our rights and freedoms expand over time.

That's why EFF is excited to spotlight two free book events this December that look ahead, providing insight on how to build this better future. Featuring EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn, we’ll be exploring how stories, technology, and policy shape the world around us. Here’s how you can join us this year and learn more about next year’s events:

Exploring Progressive Social Change at The Booksmith - We Will Rise Again 

December 2 | 7:00 PM Pacific Time | The Booksmith, San Francisco 

We’re celebrating the release of We Will Rise Again, a new anthology of speculative stories from writers across the world, including Cindy Cohn, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Reo Eveleth, Andrea Dehlendorf, and Vida Jame. This collection explores topics ranging from disability justice and environmental activism to community care and collective worldbuilding to offer tools for organizing, interrogating the status quo, and a blueprint for building a better world.

Join Cindy Cohn and her fellow panelists at this event to learn how speculative fiction helps us think critically about technology, civil liberties, and the kind of world we want to create. We hope to see some familiar faces there! 

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AI, Politics, and the Future of Democracy - Rewiring Democracy

December 3 | 6:00 PM Pacific Time | Virtual

We’re also geared up to join an online discussion with EFF Board Member Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders about their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. In this time when AI is taking up every conversation—from generative AI tools to algorithmic decision-making in government—this book cuts through the hype to examine the ways that the technology is transforming every aspect of democracy, for good and bad. 

Cindy Cohn will join Schneier and Sanders for a forward-looking conversation about what’s possible, and what’s at stake, as AI weaves itself into our governments and how to steer it in the right direction. We’ll see you online for this one! 

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Announcing Cindy Cohn's New Book, Privacy's Defender

In March we’ll be kicking off the celebration for Cindy Cohn’s new book, Privacy’s Defender, chronicling her thirty-year battle to protect everyone’s right to digital privacy and offering insights into the ongoing fight for our civil liberties online. Stay tuned for more information about our first event at City Lights on Tuesday, March 10!

The celebration doesn’t stop there. Look out for more celebrations for Privacy’s Defender throughout the year, and we hope we’ll see you at one of them. Plus, you can learn more about the book and even preorder it today! 

PREORDER PRIVACY'S DEFENDER

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WJdHQdpKnmDEhQs-800x450-noPad.webp　本日、新潟県の花角英世知事が、東京電力柏崎刈羽原発の再稼働の容認を表明しました。12月2日からはじまる県議会での議決を経たのち、国・東電に正式に「地元同意」を伝えるとしています。　新潟県が実施した県民意識調査では、「再稼働の条件は整っているか」との設問に対し、「そうは思わない」「どちらかといえばそうは思わない」との回答が６割を超えました。市民団体による調査でも、県民の約6割が再稼働に反対の意を示しています。..

A California judge ordered the end of a dragnet law enforcement program that surveilled the electrical smart meter data of thousands of Sacramento residents.

The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and police violated a state privacy statute, which bars the disclosure of residents’ electrical usage data with narrow exceptions. For more than a decade, SMUD coordinated with the Sacramento Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis growing.

EFF and its co-counsel represent three petitioners in the case: the Asian American Liberation Network, Khurshid Khoja, and Alfonso Nguyen. They argued that the program created a host of privacy harms—including criminalizing innocent people, creating menacing encounters with law enforcement, and disproportionately harming the Asian community.

The court ruled that the challenged surveillance program was not part of any traditional law enforcement investigation. Investigations happen when police try to solve particular crimes and identify particular suspects. The dragnet that turned all 650,000 SMUD customers into suspects was not an investigation.

“[T]he process of making regular requests for all customer information in numerous city zip codes, in the hopes of identifying evidence that could possibly be evidence of illegal activity, without any report or other evidence to suggest that such a crime may have occurred, is not an ongoing investigation,” the court ruled, finding that SMUD violated its “obligations of confidentiality” under a data privacy statute.

Granular electrical usage data can reveal intimate details inside the home—including when you go to sleep, when you take a shower, when you are away, and other personal habits and demographics.

The dragnet turned 650,000 SMUD customers into suspects.

In creating and running the dragnet surveillance program, according to the court, SMUD and police “developed a relationship beyond that of utility provider and law enforcement.” Multiple times a year, the police asked SMUD to search its entire database of 650,000 customers to identify people who used a large amount of monthly electricity and to analyze granular 1-hour electrical usage data to identify residents with certain electricity “consumption patterns.” SMUD passed on more than 33,000 tips about supposedly “high” usage households to police.

While this is a victory, the Court unfortunately dismissed an alternate claim that the program violated the California Constitution’s search and seizure clause. We disagree with the court’s reasoning, which misapprehends the crux of the problem: At the behest of law enforcement, SMUD searches granular smart meter data and provides insights to law enforcement based on that granular data.

Going forward, public utilities throughout California should understand that they cannot disclose customers’ electricity data to law enforcement without any “evidence to support a suspicion” that a particular crime occurred.

EFF, along with Monty Agarwal of the law firm Vallejo, Antolin, Agarwal, Kanter LLP, brought and argued the case on behalf of Petitioners.

Related Cases: Asian American Liberation Network v. SMUD, et al.

2025年11月18日、トランプ米大統領は2度、「それで終わりにしよう」と、言いました。一つは、モハンマド・サウジアラビア皇太子が「俺は知らない」と言ったことを受けて、もう一つはABCテレビのメリー記者に少女売春売買犯エプスタインとの関係を聞かれ、「俺は知らない」と答え、「それで終わりにしよう」と、言いました。　同日、米議会ではエプスタイン文書公開が可決されトランプが署名し、アルジェリアではトランプが送った二人の外交刺客による「西サハラを終わりにしよう」工作が拒否されました。