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FC: Japan may require mandatory ID checks for digital signatures
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:57:27 -0500
From: Jim Lucier To: Declan () well com Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:27:46 -0500 Subject: For FC: Japan May Require ID for Dig Sigs http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000205/tc/japan_internet_crime_1.html Saturday February 5 1:36 AM ET Report: Japan Fights Internet Crime TOKYO (AP) - With hackers barraging government Internet sites, Japanese police announced plans to improve crime-fighting in cyberspace, newspapers reported Saturday. Beginning late last month, unidentified hackers began a high-profile campaign to crack state sites. And despite its love for just about everything high-tech, Japan is far behind other countries when it comes to tackling online crime. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest paper, said the National Police Agency has requested $1.78 million from the country's fiscal 2000 budget to battle the problem. Police want to study how hackers break into Web sites and ensure user names are not being abused, the reports said. [...]
A bill aimed at improving user verification, a so-called digital signature bill, is due to be submitted to parliament soon, the Asahi Shimbun reported. Digital signatures allow people to use the Internet to buy and sell goods and services, it said. The police agency is urging that mandatory identity checks on people who apply for such signatures be made part of the bill, the paper said. The proposed legislation comes on the heels of a new law parliament passed last summer to make it illegal to access sites without the proper clearance. It takes effect this month.
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