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『IoTセキュリティ推進セミナー 〜 最新のIoTセキュリティ動向とNOTICEの役割 2025 〜』の開催

eシールに係る認定制度の関係規程策定のための有識者会議（第6回）

It's a new year and EFF is here to help you keep up with your New Year's resolution to stay up-to-date on the latest digital rights news with our EFFector newsletter!

This edition of the newsletter covers our tongue-in-cheek "awards" for some of the worst data breaches in 2024, The Breachies; an explanation of "real-time bidding," the most privacy-invasive surveillance system you may have never heard of; and our notes to Meta on how to empower freedom of expression on their platforms. 

You can read the full newsletter here, and even get future editions directly to your inbox when you subscribe! Additionally, we've got an audio edition of EFFector on the Internet Archive, or you can view it by clicking the button below:

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EFFECTOR 37.1 - DIGITAL RIGHTS AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATION

Since 1990 EFF has published EFFector to help keep readers on the bleeding edge of their digital rights. We know that the intersection of technology, civil liberties, human rights, and the law can be complicated, so EFFector is a great way to stay on top of things. The newsletter is chock full of links to updates, announcements, blog posts, and other stories to help keep readers—and listeners—up to date on the movement to protect online privacy and free expression. 

　政府は11月29日、経済対策の裏付けとなる補正予算案を閣議決定した。一般会計の歳出は13・９兆円にのぼり、その規模は昨年度の13・２兆円を上回る。景気が回復を続ける中で、なぜ東日本大震災後の対策に匹敵するレベルの財政出動が必要か。巨額な財政出動を打ち出したことで市場からノーを突きつけられた英トラス政権の悲劇（トラス・ショック）を繰り返してはならない。　財政法第29条は補正予算について「緊要性」のある経費に対する支出であることを要件としている。緊急な対応が必要というのは、裏返..

Police have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. EFF has long argued that face recognition, whether it is fully accurate or not, is too dangerous for police use,  and such use ought to be banned.

Now, The Washington Post has proved one more reason for this ban: police claim to use FRT just as an investigatory lead, but in practice officers routinely ignore protocol and immediately arrest the most likely match spit out by the computer without first doing their own investigation.

Cities across the United States have decided to join the growing movement to ban police use of face recognition because this technology is simply too dangerous in the hands of police.

The report also tells the stories of two men who were unknown to the public until now: Christopher Galtin and Jason Vernau. They were wrongfully arrested in St. Louis and Miami, respectively, after being misidentified by face recognition. In both cases, the men were jailed despite readily available evidence that would have shown that, despite the apparent match found by the computer, they in fact were not the correct match.

This is infuriating. Just last year, the Assistant Chief of Police for the Miami Police Department, the department that wrongfully arrested Jason Vernau, testified before Congress that his department does not arrest people based solely on face recognition and without proper followup investigations. “Matches are treated like an anonymous tip,” he said during the hearing.

Apparently not all officers got the memo.

We’ve seen this before. Many times. Galtin and Vernau join a growing list of those known to have been wrongfully arrested around the United States based on police use of face recognition. They include Michael Oliver, Nijeer Parks, Randal Reid, Alonzo Sawyer, Robert Williams, and Porcha Woodruff. It is no coincidence that all six of these people, and now adding Christopher Galtin to that list, are Black. Scholars and activists have been raising the alarm for years that, in addition to a huge amount of police surveillance generally being directed at Black communities, face recognition specifically has a long history of having a lower rate of accuracy when it comes to identifying people with darker complexions. The case of Robert Williams in Detroit resulted in a lawsuit which ended in the Detroit police department, which had used FRT to justify a number of wrongful arrests, instituting strict new guidelines about the use of face recognition technology.

Cities across the United States have decided to join the growing movement to ban police use of face recognition because this technology is simply too dangerous in the hands of police.

Even in a world where the technology is 100% accurate, police still should not be trusted with it. The temptation for police to fly a drone over a protest and use face recognition to identify the crowd would be too great and the risks to civil liberties too high. After all, we already see that police are cutting corners and using their technology in ways that violate their own departmental policies.

We continue to urge cities, states, and Congress to ban police use of face recognition technology. We stand ready to assist. As intrepid tech journalists and researchers continue to do their jobs, increased evidence of these harms will only increase the urgency of our movement. 

Siemensから各製品向けのアップデートが公開されました。

rsyncには複数の脆弱性が存在します。

The Dimensional Gateが提供するLinux Ratforには、スタックベースのバッファオーバーフローの脆弱性が存在します。

Please join EFF for the next segment of EFFecting Change, our livestream series covering digital privacy and free speech. 

EFFecting Change Livestream Series:
Digital Rights & the New Administration
Thursday, January 16th
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific - Check Local Time
This event is LIVE and FREE!

What direction will your digital rights take under Trump and the 119th Congress? Find out about the topics EFF is watching and the effect they might have on you.

Join our panel of experts as they discuss surveillance, age verification, and consumer privacy. Learn how you can advocate for your digital rights and the resources available to you with our panel featuring EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton, EFF Senior Staff Technologist Bill Budington, EFF Legislative Director Lee Tien, and EFF Senior Policy Analyst Joe Mullin.

We hope you and your friends can join us live! Be sure to spread the word, and share our past livestreams. Please note that all events will be recorded for later viewing on our YouTube page.

Want to make sure you don’t miss our next livestream? Here’s a link to sign up for updates about this series: eff.org/ECUpdates.

『IoTセキュリティ推進セミナー 〜 最新のIoTセキュリティ動向とNOTICEの役割 2025 〜』の開催

宇宙通信アドバイザリーボード（第4回）