I've started to look into the issue of Facebooking the Takeo City homepage. In August 2011, Takeo City, Saga Prefecture, bravely "completely migrated" its city homepage to Facebook.[1]The reason why the White House and others can set up shop on Facebook is because they have a separate channel through which they can be contacted anonymously = providing personal information is voluntary. Having to register with Facebook would never be accepted in the United States.
This kind of thing,http://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse This is stated in the privacy policy, which is prominently linked to the left of the page. What about Takeo City? http://ja-jp.facebook.com/takeocity When I search for "privacy" on the site, the only results I get are from Facebook.Takeo City_Home When you go to the bottom of the page,Privacy Policy was there[2]According to this, providing personal information seems to be optional. In fact, the page itself is just loaded in an iFrame, and the content seems to be on its own server. In other words, it's more like setting up a store on Facebook than migrating to Facebook. This would make it possible to set up a store on Yahoo! and other sites.
However, even with that, not all data will be written to the Takeo City server. Posts on the wall will be stored on Facebook. This is, as Mayor Higuchi said,[3] This becomes even more significant when you consider that the agency's internal network also moved to Facebook in April 2012.
These are issues of cross-border data and data integrity.
Facebook's terms of service state that data will be transferred to the United States. As you know, this data can be seized by US authorities. How did the Japanese government evaluate this? I'm not denying it, but I would like to know the results of the evaluation.
Incidentally, some provinces in Canada apparently prohibit public institutions from using services that transfer data to the United States, due to concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and service continuity.
Confidentiality means, for example, that classified information is sent from the national government to a local government. This information is stored in a data center in the United States. In this case, the US authorities can access the information without a warrant.[4]You can read this excerpt. Is this something a government agency should do?
I'm sure you've considered these issues in detail. If you have any minutes or reports on the results of your discussions, please share them with us. They will be extremely useful for other local governments and government agencies to move to public clouds in the future.
(Added 2012/2/28)
As expected, it seems that these issues have not been considered.@keikuma When Mr. Nakamura used the public records disclosure request system to obtain all the relevant documents and investigate them, he found that there was no consideration given to cross-border data or the privacy of residents. The only consideration given was to the integrity of the content itself, which was available in an iFrame.
In addition, Mr. Munetoshi Ren, President and CEO of E-Corporation.jp, Aomori City Information Policy Coordination Supervisor (CIO Assistant), and Saga Prefecture Headquarters Information Planning Supervisor,@YomutakuJPAccording to information from Mr. Fujii, South Korea also banned some government agencies from using the cloud about two weeks ago [6].
On the other hand, Takeo City Mayor Keisuke Hiwatashi wrote on his blog page [7]:
"This Facebook Intranet is free. It's free. It's extremely stable and fun to use. It's not just for sharing ideas, it's also for calendars, car reservations, and meeting room reservations."
"I hope that there's no such thing as a free lunch."
[1] In reality, the original server page is displayed on Facebook in an iFrame, so it's not a complete migration. However, comments from users are posted on Facebook, and it seems that you can't post them without a Facebook account. (←Please let me know if I'm wrong.)
[2] This one is hard to notice. I think it would be better to put it somewhere more visible on the left side.
[3] http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1202/16/news090_2.html
[4] The so-called Patriot Act allows for the delay of the presentation of a warrant for an unspecified period of time. (I wonder if that's correct. Can someone who knows more about this please let me know?)
[5] (Updated 2/28) http://twitter.com/keikuma/status/174147307451854848
[6] (Updated 2/28) http://twitter.com/YomutakuJp/status/174152532204077056
[7] (Updated 2/28) http://hiwa1118.exblog.jp/15337563/
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