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CPSR GROUP/PROJECT REPORT *June 16-October 16 GROUP CPSR/Japan Board Liaison Shinji R. Yamane Officer information Shinji R. Yamane (Chair) Kazuo Fujimoto (Secretary) Joichi Ito (Treasurer) Contact Name Shinji R. Yamane Address: Faculty of Software and Information Science Iwate Prefectural University 152-52, Takizawa-aza-sugo, Takizawa, Iwate, 020-0193, Japan Chapter Chair Shinji R. Yamane Chapter Secretary Kazuo Fujimoto Chapter Treasurer Joichi Ito CPSR WebPage URL: http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/ (Japan.cpsr.org is reserved.) CPSR WebPage Editor(s): Shinji R. Yamane Date of Last WebPage Update: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP HAS DONE SINCE LAST REPORTING: 1. Publications Since the last year, CPSR/Japan members have warned the public about the risks and vulnerability of Basic Resident Registers Network System (BRRN, aka Juki-net). CPSR/Japan member co-authored some books in Japanese about Juki-net. The speech by board member Shinji Yamane appeared in "Ju-ki Net Ichi nuketa" (ISBN4-87798-159-4, June 2003). Gohsuke Takama and Joi Ito appeared in "Privacy ga Nakunaru hi" (ISBN4-7503-1775-6, August 2003) edited by Japan Bar Association. Gohsuke Takama also co-authored "Anata no Kojin jouhou ga Nusumareru"(ISBN 4-09-389223-7) edited by Yoshiko Sakurai. 2. Social events In June, CPSR/Japan member Nobuo Sakiyama had a meeting with Ben Edelman on filtering/censorware research. Board member Kazuo Fujimoto attend the panel discussion in IEICE Society Conference held in 23-26 September 2003, at Niigata University. IEICE(Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) is the largest engineers organization in Japan. CPSR/Japan has one year anniversary and held 2nd Anuual Conference in September 26rd in Tokyo. It is a open meeting to the public and some non-member attended to the conference. Following topics are reported by active members and discussed by attendees. - WSIS Asian Regional Conference and coming World Summit - Risk of Basic Residential Registers Network (Juki-net) - Risk of National ID Smartcard - Copyright Law and Commons - Privacy for Electronic Government - Filtering/censorware research - Joint statement against Dating Site bill - FOIA: Lawful Interception of Internet in Japan - Convention on Cybercrime and Japanese implementation (http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/events/cfp2003.txt) The conference was also reported by Mainichi Newspaper. (http://www.mainichi.co.jp/digital/network/archive/200309/29/5.html) From 11th to 19th October, CPSR/Japan assisted a series of symposium titled as 'Civil Society and the Internet, Twenty Years of Networking and Future Prospects' held by JCAFE (Japan Computer Access for Empowerment). (http://www.jcafe.net/english/sympo03/index.html) In this symposium, CPSR/Japan active member Nobuo Sakiyama had a presentaion "Convention on Cybercrime and its Consequences to Information Society: the case of Japan". BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE: We have some plans on the both international and local issues. CPSR/Japan is planning to send a member to WSIS on Dec.10-12 in Geneva. CPSR/Japan increase public awareness of security and privacy issues on e-Government or National ID. This debate spreads to each local governments. Convention on Cybercrime implementation to Japanese law will be discussed at next congress and CPSR/Japan will provide the risk analysis from computer professionals _____________________________________________________ I certify that the current balance in the Chapter account (if applicable) is: We don't have the bank account and balance. _____________________________________________________ -- Shinji R. Yamane Chair, CPSR/Japan