沖縄は旧暦で各種行事を行う。今年の旧正月は1月29日だった。県内各地の漁港では漁業者（ウミンチュ）たちが航海安全と豊漁、家族の健康を願い、漁船に大漁旗を掲げるのが習わしだ。　旧正月のころ台湾や中国、香港など中華圏は新年の「春節」。ベトナムは「テト」。韓国、東南アジアも新年に沸く。民族の大移動といわれる春節。沖縄も海外の観光客であふれている。　カンヒザクラ（緋寒桜ともいう）の淡いピンクの花が青空に映える中、初春の沖縄の風物詩・プロ野球の春季キャンプも真っ盛り。どの球場も県内外..

トランプ米大統領が己の思いつくまま発信する言葉に、「Oh NO ‼オー、ノー！！」と、世界中で声が上がっています。　しかし、「ノー」の声は届かず、トランプは毎日毎日、嬉々としてトランプ・ワンマンショーを、ホワイトハウスをスタジオにし楽しんでいます。　大迷惑を被っている世界の庶民は、「ウクライナ戦争もガザ戦争も関税戦争も、全て空手形でなぎ倒そうとするトランプは、結局、ユダヤ財閥にノーと言えないのだ」と、トランプのアキレス腱を突っついて、憂さを晴らすしかないようです。

Sungrowが提供する複数の製品には、複数の脆弱性が存在します。

This past January the new administration issued an executive order on Artificial Intelligence (AI), taking the place of the now rescinded Biden-era order, calling for a new AI Action Plan tasked with “unburdening” the current AI industry to stoke innovation and remove “engineered social agendas” from the industry. This new action plan for the president is currently being developed and open to public comments to the National Science Foundation (NSF).

EFF answered with a few clear points: First, government procurement of decision-making (ADM) technologies must be done with transparency and public accountability—no secret and untested algorithms should decide who keeps their job or who is denied safe haven in the United States. Second, Generative AI policy rules must be narrowly focused and proportionate to actual harms, with an eye on protecting other public interests. And finally, we shouldn't entrench the biggest companies and gatekeepers with AI licensing schemes.

Government Automated Decision Making

US procurement of AI has moved with remarkable speed and an alarming lack of transparency. By wasting money on systems with no proven track record, this procurement not only entrenches the largest AI companies, but risks infringing the civil liberties of all people subject to these automated decisions.

These harms aren’t theoretical, we have already seen a move to adopt experimental AI tools in policing and national security, including immigration enforcement. Recent reports also indicate the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) intends to apply AI to evaluate federal workers, and use the results to make decisions about their continued employment.

Automating important decisions about people is reckless and dangerous. At best these new AI tools are ineffective nonsense machines which require more labor to correct inaccuracies, but at worst result in irrational and discriminatory outcomes obscured by the blackbox nature of the technology.

Instead, the adoption of such tools must be done with a robust public notice-and-comment practice as required by the Administrative Procedure Act. This process helps weed out wasteful spending on AI snake oil, and identifies when the use of such AI tools are inappropriate or harmful.

Additionally, the AI action plan should favor tools developed under the principles of free and open-source software. These principles are essential for evaluating the efficacy of these models, and ensure they uphold a more fair and scientific development process. Furthermore, more open development stokes innovation and ensures public spending ultimately benefits the public—not just the most established companies.

Don’t Enable Powerful Gatekeepers

Spurred by the general anxiety about Generative AI, lawmakers have drafted sweeping regulations based on speculation, and with little regard for the multiple public interests at stake. Though there are legitimate concerns, this reactionary approach to policy is exactly what we warned against back in 2023.

For example, bills like NO FAKES and NO AI Fraud expand copyright laws to favor corporate giants over everyone else’s expression. NO FAKES even includes a scheme for a DMCA-like notice takedown process, long bemoaned by creatives online for encouraging broader and automated online censorship. Other policymakers propose technical requirements like watermarking that are riddled with practical points of failure.

Among these dubious solutions is the growing prominence of AI licensing schemes which limit the potential of AI development to the highest bidders. This intrusion on fair use creates a paywall protecting only the biggest tech and media publishing companies—cutting out the actual creators these licenses nominally protect. It’s like helping a bullied kid by giving them more lunch money to give their bully.

This is the wrong approach. Looking for easy solutions like expanding copyright, hurts everyone. Particularly smaller artists, researchers, and businesses who cannot compete with the big gatekeepers of industry. AI has threatened the fair pay and treatment of creative labor, but sacrificing secondary use doesn’t remedy the underlying imbalance of power between labor and oligopolies.

People have a right to engage with culture and express themselves unburdened by private cartels. Policymakers should focus on narrowly crafted policies to preserve these rights, and keep rulemaking constrained to tested solutions addressing actual harms.

You can read our comments here.

事件当時、ローマの検察官だったジョルジョ・サンタクローチェが事件の捜査を担当する。サンタクローチェは、１９８０年１１月にワシントンに赴く。アメリカ海軍の元戦闘機操縦士で航空レーダー分析の専門家であるジョン・マッキンドルにレーダー分析をしてもらうためだ。（サトウノリコ＝イタリア在住）

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Eff.org was first registered in 1990, just three months after the organization was founded, and long before the web was an essential part of daily life. Our website and the fight for digital rights grew rapidly alongside each other. However, along with rising threats to our freedoms online, threats to our site have also grown.

It takes a village to keep eff.org online in 2025. Every day our staff work tirelessly to protect the site from everything from DDoS attacks to automated hacking attempts, and everything in between. As AI has taken off, so have crawlers and bots that scrape content to train LLMs, sometimes without respecting rate limits we’ve asked them to observe. Newly donated security add-ons from Fastly help us automate DDoS prevention and rate limiting, preventing our servers from getting overloaded when misbehaving visitors abuse our sites. Fastly also caches the content from our site around the globe, meaning that visitors from all over the world can access eff.org and our other sites quickly and easily.

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Users are frustrated with legacy social media companies. Is it possible to effectively build the kinds of communities we want online while avoiding the pitfalls that have driven people away?

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社会の変革に対応した地方公務員制度のあり方に関する検討会 時代に即した組織運営・人材戦略に関する分科会（第2回）