On Tuesday, March 10, the Japanese Cabinet approved a bill to revise the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, which would require companies to take certain additional measures to protect personal data of data subjects. The proposed amendment will be submitted to the ordinary session of the Diet for approval. The update comes as part of the Japanese government’s commitment to update Japan’s privacy law every three years. The last update came into force in May 2017.
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Changes in Japan Privacy Law to Take Effect in Mid-2017; Key Regulator Provides Compliance Insights
Recent changes to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information and the establishment of a new Personal Information Protection Commission have raised questions about how the world’s third-largest economy plans to implement new domestic requirements and engage internationally on cross-border data transfers, APEC, new technologies, and more. Hogan Lovells recently hosted some of Japan’s senior data privacy regulators and advisors for a special briefing in our Washington, D.C. offices.