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Osaka University announced that personal information — including the names and email addresses of roughly 78,000 students and graduates — had leaked outside the university. The leak occurred through a server used by NEC, which handles the university’s system operations, to share information with a partner company; NEC says the cause was a cyberattack on that partner company. However, according to the university, information-sharing between NEC and the partner company was never part of the contract in the first place — NEC had been doing this without the university’s authorization. On 5ch, commenters mostly criticized the lax oversight of the subcontracted vendor, and many pointed out that other universities and public institutions with similar outsourcing structures could be at risk too.

Osaka University announced that personal information belonging to about 78,000 people — including students’ names and email addresses — had been leaked.

According to Osaka University, personal information such as the names and email addresses of about 78,000 students and graduates leaked from a server that NEC, which is contracted to manage the university’s systems, uses to share information with a partner company.

NEC attributes the cause of the leak to a cyberattack on the partner company, but according to the university, information-sharing between NEC and the partner company was not part of the contract, and NEC had been sharing the personal information without the university’s authorization.

Source: newsdig.tbs.co.jp / Original article here

※This article is compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Osaka University leaks personal information of approx. 78,000 people… Subcontractor “NEC” shared information with a partner company without the university’s permission → blamed on cyberattack damage” with excerpts and summarization.

At a press conference on the 16th, Children’s Policy Minister Hiroshi Nakatsuji said the government would not consider legally defining children’s voices as “not noise,” while stressing the importance of society as a whole warmly watching over and supporting children. The backdrop includes lawsuits in Kobe and Tokyo’s Nerima Ward, where nearby residents sued daycare centers and the Supreme Court ultimately ruled against the residents in both cases, as well as a park in Nagano City that was shut down after a complaint from a single neighboring household. In 2023, LDP lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi had cited a related German law in calling for better accommodations. On the 5ch forum, opinions split between those arguing “it really is noisy” and “it’s a parenting issue,” and those countering that “parks and daycares are a different matter” and “that’s separate from trains or stores.”

At a press conference on the 16th, Children’s Policy Minister Hiroshi Nakatsuji spoke about the voices of children playing in parks and daycare centers, saying, “This arises naturally as part of children’s healthy development, and it’s important for society as a whole to warmly watch over and support children and parents.” At the same time, he denied that the government was considering legislation declaring such voices not to be noise.

On the issue of children’s voices, residents near daycare centers in Kobe and Tokyo’s Nerima Ward sued the facilities, and in both cases the Supreme Court finalized rulings against the residents. In addition, a park in Nagano City was closed in March 2023 after a noise complaint from a single neighboring household, sparking debate.

At a House of Representatives Health, Labor and Welfare Committee session that April, LDP lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi (now Defense Minister) noted, “In Germany, apparently there’s a law stating that children’s voices are not noise, so that plans to build daycare centers or parks don’t get derailed by noise complaints,” and called for “creating an environment that eases the discomfort felt by children and parents raising them.”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Topic] Denies Legislating “Children’s Voices Are Not Noise” — Children’s Policy Minister: “It’s Important to Warmly Watch Over and Support Them”“.