The 10th Study Group on Platform Services was held today at 10:1 a.m. in the 6st Conference Room on the XNUMXth floor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, with the participation of Ms. Yukari Sato, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.1This was followed by an explanation by the Secretariat of the 46-page "Draft Interim Report," after which an exchange of opinions took place.
I had looked over the draft report that was distributed to members yesterday and knew it was a tremendous piece of work, so initially I had planned to just stick to "acting like a figurehead." However, when I tweeted about "Today's act as a figurehead" on Facebook before the meeting, Chairman Shishido, upon entering the room, immediately instructed me to "don't just act like a figurehead, do your job properly." I was also inspired by the comments made by the other members, so I ended up making the following statement.
(Summary of Sakimura's remarks)
- Thank you very much for summarizing this wonderful report. I would like to make four points for future consideration.
(1) Availability
- Regarding availability, it is very good that it is mentioned that it is "easy for users to use" (easy to use).
- It is necessary to secure a place where it can be used. Without this, it will not become widespread and society will not change (as advocated by Society 5.0).2I would like you to consider this.
(2) How consent should be obtained
- Easy-to-understand consent is important
- On the other hand, the problem of "consent fatigue" is serious.
- Hiding consent that has a significant privacy impact among many other consents that have no privacy impact is a classic attack on privacy, as if trying to hide the trees in the forest. If we move in the direction of excessive consent, as the EU has done, this becomes even easier.
- In this regard, wouldn't it be effective for Japan to take the lead and consider, for example, the institutionalization of consent through representatives or agents from the perspective of consumer protection?
(3) Portability (P.15)
- Unless there is international standardization of data formats and protocols for exchange, portability will likely remain nothing more than a pipe dream and will not be effective, so this also needs to be considered.
(4) Fake News
- Regarding the crackdown on fake news, we need to be mindful of the asymmetry of power between companies and individuals, between those who make comments and those who request their content be taken down. Whenever I upload something to YouTube, for example, I immediately get a copyright objection. Many of these are fraudulent objections, and of course I fight to have them taken down, but the content must be in English, and if I fail, there is a risk that my account will be deleted, so ordinary consumers and people don't feel like fighting back. If this system continues in a similar way, it could also be used to stifle the speech of ordinary people. We hope to see a system that is consumer- and people-friendly.
(/Summary of Sakimura's remarks)
In the motion after the debate
- The revisions to the interim report (draft) based on comments from the members will be left to the discretion of Chair Shishido.
- Comments will be collected from February 2th to March 18th.
It was resolved that:
The meeting was broadcast on TBS. The headline was "GAFA to also regulate 'secrecy of communications'."
If I remember correctly, the report did not use the term "GAFA," but oh well. If you watch the video to the end, you'll see a close-up of the companies.
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My name tag lol.
footnote
- Up to this point, there was TV camera footage by TBS. The broadcast contents are as follows:Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to apply "secrecy of communications" regulations to major overseas IT companiesreference.
- Member Tezuka is the chairperson