IPA IP 2021 Question 17
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問17, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Among cases A through C that occurred in services provided by a provider, which of the following lists all and only those that can be the subject of the provider’s responsibility for response under the Provider Liability Limitation Act?
Explanation
Only A — the Provider Liability Limitation Act deals with rights infringed by information made public through a provider’s service, such as a bulletin board post.
Japan’s Provider Liability Limitation Act covers information sent to unspecified people, such as web pages and bulletin boards. When a post infringes someone’s rights, it sets when the provider is liable for deleting it or leaving it up, and lets the victim ask the provider to disclose who posted it.
- •A: a post on a bulletin board infringed a person’s rights: the provider can be asked to delete it or disclose the poster.
- •B: an e-mail is one-to-one communication, not information made public, and a malware infection is not a rights infringement by posted information.
- •C: using someone’s ID and password without permission is unauthorized access, covered by the Act on the Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — adds B and C, neither of which is information circulated publicly
- •(c) — adds C, which is a matter for the unauthorized access law
- •(d) — leaves out A, the one case the Act is made for
Key rule: The Provider Liability Limitation Act = a provider’s duty to respond to rights-infringing posts (deletion, disclosure of the sender); unauthorized logins fall under the Unauthorized Computer Access Act.
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