
通信アクセスの抑止策、法的課題を整理へ
総務省は10日、サイバー攻撃による個人情報の悪用を防ぐため、通信アクセスの抑止や「ブロッキング」を巡る法的課題を議論する専門家会議の新設を発表した。来年初頭の中間とりまとめを目指す。
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政府が6日にまとめた緊急対策パッケージに通信事業者によるアクセス抑止策の検討が盛り込まれていた。
総務省は10日、サイバー攻撃により漏えいした個人情報の悪用を防ぐため、通信アクセスの抑止を議論する専門家会議を新設すると発表した。通信事業者が問題のあるサイトへの通信を強制的に遮断する「ブロッキング」を巡る法的課題などを整理し、来年初頭にも中間とりまとめを行う。
政府が6日にまとめた緊急対策パッケージには、「通信事業者によるアクセス抑止策に関する検討」が盛り込まれた。会議はこれを踏まえたもので、憲法や刑法など法律の専門家を中心に構成。ブロッキングを含めた通信事業者によるアクセス抑止の実施が、法律上どのように位置付けられるかなどを議論する。
GMOインターネットグループへの不正アクセス問題では、攻撃者とみられる者のサイトで個人情報が公開され、総務省は通信事業者に同サイトへのブロッキングを要請した。一方、ブロッキングは、全ての利用者の接続先を把握することが前提で、憲法が保障する「通信の秘密」に抵触する恐れがあり、法的根拠も明確ではない。NTTの島田明社長は4日の記者会見で、ブロッキングの実施には「ガイドラインを整備し、究極的には法制化していくことが重要だ」と述べていた。
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来年初頭にも中間とりまとめを行う
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Approximately $6.3 billion (approximately 1 trillion yen) worth of crypto assets were leaked from Binance, and the FBI has determined that the North Korean hacker group Trader Trater (TT) was responsible for the leak. TT is part of Lazarus, which was also involved in the DMM Bitcoin and ByBit leaks, and is a source of nuclear funding for North Korea. Experts are calling for measures such as requiring multiple signatures.

NTT Docomo announced on the 11th that a problem had occurred with its 5G SA service that made it difficult to make voice calls, data communications, and short messages nationwide. The incident occurred just after 10:30 a.m. and had no effect on emergency calls. The cause is under investigation, and there is no outlook for recovery. A similar outage occurred on the 5th, but it was restored in about 14 hours, affecting up to about 1.58 million people.

In response to a series of information leaks due to unauthorized access, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Hisayuki Fujii announced on the 10th that he will establish a panel of experts to consider legal issues surrounding ``blocking,'' the act of blocking connections to specific websites by telecommunications carriers. Concerns about breaching the confidentiality of communications will also be discussed.

The government analyzes that the cause of personal information leaks due to unauthorized access is a lack of basic measures by companies, but points out that the emergency package does not include tougher sanctions and instead focuses on measures that violate the confidentiality of citizens' communications, such as considering "blocking" by telecommunications carriers to shut down sites. An editorial that questions the gap between diagnosis and prescription.

In an interview during her visit to Japan, UN Women's Deputy Director-General Nyarazai Gunbonzbanda warned that AI could widen global inequality and called for rectifying the digital divide by encouraging women to enter STEM fields. While praising the appointment of a female prime minister, he called for an increase in the number of women in local governments and cabinet positions, a correction of wage disparities, and tax exemption for sanitary products.
Google announced on November 9th that it will add new "TPU 8tx" and "TPU 8i Max" to the 8th generation TPU. TPU 8tx improves sensitive data protection, TPU 8i Max enhances long-context processing, and software for AI agents. The launch date and price have not yet been determined.