【アピール】能動的サイバー防御法案─戦争国家への道に=自由法曹団<br />

3 weeks 1 day ago
 能動的サイバー防御法案(サイバー先制攻撃法案)は、政府による国民の通信情報の監視を認め、サイバー先制攻撃を認めるもので、戦争国家につながる危険な法律です。 サイバー先制攻撃案では、まず①海外から国内設備を通って海外に送られる通信、②海外から国内への通信、③国内から海外への通信、の各通信情報を政府は把握・分析するとされ、さらに必要がある場合には、これらの通信情報を送受信者の同意なく、取得できるとしています。 政府により取得される通信情報は、IPアドレスやメールアドレスなどの機..
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EFF, Civil Society Groups, Academics Call on UK Home Secretary to Address Flawed Data Bill

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Last week, EFF joined 30 civil society groups and academics in warning UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Secretary Peter Kyle about the law enforcement risks contained within the draft Data Use and Access Bill (DUA Bill).

Clause 80 of the DUA Bill weakens the safeguards for solely automated decisions in the law-enforcement context and dilutes crucial data protection safeguards. 

Under sections 49 and 50 of the Data Protection Act 2018, solely automated decisions are prohibited from being made in the law enforcement context unless the decision is required or authorised by law. Clause 80 reverses this in all scenarios unless the data processing involves special category data. 

In short, this would enable law enforcement to use automated decisions about people regarding their socioeconomic status, regional or postcode data, inferred emotions, or even regional accents. This increases the already broad possibilities for bias, discrimination, and lack of transparency at the hands of law enforcement.

In the government’s own Impact Assessment for the DUA Bill, the Government acknowledged that “those with protected characteristics such as race, gender, and age are more likely to face discrimination from ADM due to historical biases in datasets.” Yet, politicians in the UK have decided to push forward with this discriminatory and dangerous agenda regardless. 

Further, given the already minimal transparency around automated decision making, individuals affected in the law enforcement context would have no or highly limited routes to redress.

The DUA Bill puts marginalised groups at risk of opaque, unfair and harmful automated decisions. Yvette Cooper and Peter Kyle must address the lack of safeguards governing law enforcement use of automated decision-making tools before time runs out.

The full letter can be found here

Paige Collings

【映画の鏡】海外から注目 アカデミー賞候補に『小学校~それは小さな社会~』「日本に普通」に世界が感動?=鈴木賀津彦

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          Cineric Creative/NHK/Pystymets a/Point du Jour 昨年末から劇場公開され話題のドキュメンタリーではあったが、この作品から制作した23分の短編版「Instruments of a Beating Heart」が今年のアカデミー賞「短編ドキュメンタリー映画賞」にノミネートされ注目度は一気に高まった。3月2日の授賞式では受賞は逃したものの、日本の小学校の日常を捉えたドキュメンタリーに世界中から熱い視線が集まっている。 ..
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Statement on gender in the WSIS+20 review process

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As we approach the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the signatory organisations acknowledge the progress made so far in recognising gender as a cross-cutting…
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