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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

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-- 
Shinji R. Yamane
 Chair, CPSR/Japan