Concerns of privacy infringement ... Railway business operator's face authentication system immediately stopped the Nisshiren.

On November 25, the Japan Federation of Bar Association (Japan Federation) issued a statement of the chairman (although), which calls for the suspension of the use of the face authentication system in railway operators.

This is a reference about the facial authentication system of a security camera operated by JR East, "In the past, the source of the JR East station premises, etc., and after the prisoner," Nominated "" Nomination. "Registered face information of "the suspect in the middle" and "a person who has taken suspicious behavior such as wandering" in the database, and it is an unspecified network camera (8350 units) installed at 110 stations and substations.It was regarded as a problem that a large number of facial information was automatically composed and trying to make use of the suspicious person's report.At a conference in September, Akabane Kazuhika, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, said, "In the case of the operation of the face authentication system, we will provide guidance and advice as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in order to consider personal information protection."

Former Minister Akabane said, "We have once again reported that the source of the source (from JR East Japan) is not registered in the database."Since it was said that people were continuing to detect, the Nippon Benren could monitor all the people in the publicity of the face authentication system in highly expensive stations, and monitored all people."The relationship that can be said to be incorporated into the police criminal investigation system on a daily basis", and the concept of suspicious individuals is left to vague and arbitrary judgment.The free civil society is threatened. ""Because the degree of privacy rights of citizens is large, even when used by private businesses, the necessary and equivalent in the Diet, which consists of the representatives of sovereigns, such as stipulating the consent of the target person.It should not be done without the legal rules that have been carefully considered. "

According to the statement, the EU countries have already prohibited the operation of face authentication systems for unspecified majority in public places, and that the United States has also stated that laws and regulations are progressing under state laws, etc., and strict laws in Japan."If the user does not agree, the use of the face authentication system should be immediately discontinued if the user does not agree, and that it is difficult to justify by legislation."It is tied.