Recently, a Japanese female wrestler, Kimura, made an extreme choice with a malicious comment, and the Japanese government has come up with measures to ease the punishment of'perpetrators of evil'. 

Asahi Shimbun reported on the 5th of the local time that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan has decided to oblige SNS operators to provide their phone numbers to victims in the event of human rights abuses and defamation on the Internet. 

Under the current law, even if a victim who has suffered the'bad bad' demands the author's information from an SNS provider, they can only receive the IP address. In order to identify the author, you must file a lawsuit that requires the IP address to disclose information to Internet access providers and mobile carriers again. 

However, the IP address retention period is generally as short as 3 months, so it is known that data is often discarded during litigation. Therefore, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications simplified the author's identity disclosure process so that victims can be compensated for damage at once. 

If the regulations are enforced, the victims of'Ample' victims can receive the author's phone number directly from the SNS operator, and then proceed with the process of searching for personal information such as name or address by phone number.

However, there are still some issues to be solved. The phone number of the author to be disclosed by the SNS provider was entered for identification at the time of membership registration. If the identification was done by other means, such as an email address, the only personal information that can be disclosed is the IP address. 

In addition, there are voices of concern that this policy can suppress freedom of expression in the Internet space. 

The Japanese government said through a meeting of experts, it is planning to examine the scope of information that can be disclosed by a business operator, whether the business owner can disclose information without trial, and how to apply it to overseas business operators. 

This is'News Pick'.

(Photo = Japan Wikipedia, Yonhap News)