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CPSR/Japan report Fall 2004
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****************************************************** CPSR CHAPTER REPORT * Feb.11--Aug.13 GROUP CPSR/Japan Board Liaison Shinji R. Yamane Officer information: Contact Name Shinji R. Yamane E-mail: Yamane.Shinji@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp (changed) Chair Shinji R. Yamane Secretary Kazuo Fujimoto Treasurer Joichi Ito Group Email List Address : cpsr-japan@lists.cpsr.org CPSR WebPage URL: http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/ (Now preparing to move to http://japan.cpsr.org/ .) CPSR WebPage Editor(s): Shinji Yamane Date of Last WebPage Update: Aug 18 2004 *************** BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP HAS DONE SINCE LAST REPORTING: On February 23rd in Tokyo, CPSR/Japan held a informal meeting with CPSR president Nathaniel Borenstein. In March, CPSR/Japan officer Joichi Ito join the panel discussion with Lawrence Lessig and Hiroo Yamagata at Creative Commons Symposium in Tokyo. In April, Douglas Schuler, the director of CPSR Public Sphere Project, become a fellow of GLOCOM, the Center for Global Communications which is associated with the International University of Japan. CPSR/Japan chapter contact Shinji Yamane moved to Tokyo and changed his address. On May 10, 2004 in Tokyo, Isamu Kaneko, a well-known software engineer and a research associate of Tokyo university was arrested for creating a P2P software called 'Winny.' 'Winny' supports anonymous bulletin board and file-sharing. From the day Isamu Kaneko was arrested, CPSR/Japan member Shunichi Arai immediately began the action to support him. Arai stated Isamu Defense Fund and "freekaneko.com" site. CPSR/Japan join to endorse the activity of freekaneko.com. On June 1, 2004, Kaneko accepted bail. Further information is available at http://freekaneko.com/. CPSR/Japan officer Joichi Ito and other members had been working to compile a report to Soumu-sho (Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications). It is about Japan's local government on residents privacy data protection issues, international privacy issues, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Privacy Impact Assessment. The PET part was written by Peter Wayner who is known author of Translucent Databases, Dissapearing Cryptography, Free for All and others. and the PIA part was written by Peter Hope-Tindall of dataPrivacy.com, who is known privacy technology expert working with Canada's Ontario Privacy Commissioner, the OECD for Biometrics research, and others. In May, the report became available in Japanese at http://www.soumu.go.jp/kokusai/jyumin_p.html . BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE: About September, we will have CPSR/Japan annual conference and have some meeting about the lawsuit on Winny creator. FINANCE We have no bank account, and did not receive any money. -- Shinji R. Yamane Chair, CPSR/Japan
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