Masayuki Hatta

Hey, I'm Masayuki (or aka mhatta). I do teach and research at a university and I live in Japan. I like Free Software, Open Source, and Hacktivism. You can visit my website. Just click on the button above.

Who?

Masayuki Hatta (八田真行, born 1979, Japanese) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Surugadai University in Saitama, Japan. He is currently a resident of suburban Tokyo, Japan.

Professional Career

Originally trained as an economist/organizational theorist, Hatta writes and speaks extensively on intellectual property issues. He is particularly interested in open source software licensing. He has also been doing research on techno-privacy issues such as encryption regulation for the past few years.

Hatta is also a journeyman hacker (an official GNU and Debian developer), an avid supporter of the Free Software cause, and a vocal advocate of hacktivism and the freedom of the Internet in general. He is a contributor to I2P, Tor, and other privacy enhancing technologies.

Hatta is also a visiting researcher at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan. He was previously a special researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property of Japan (2010-2011).

Activism

Hatta has been involved in several Internet-based activisms in Japan, such as Movements for Internet Active Users (MIAU), an organization modeled after EFF/ORG, and Open Knowledge Japan, the Japanese chapter of Open Knowledge. He is a founding member of both. He is also a member of several Japanese government committees, including the Committee for AI Network Society (2017-2018). He is currently a Technical and Cybersecurity Expert at Global Encryption Coalition.