Reform of data protection in Japan
summary
Japan expands private-sector coverage in 2005 and revises the law in 2015 to create a single regulator, the Personal Information Protection Commission, but enforcement remains ministry‑led and weak. Two headline breaches — 1.25 million pension records and about 30 million Benesse entries — prompt new criminal penalties for selling databases (up to one year or ¥500,000), defined anonymous processed information rules to enable big‑data reuse, opt‑out/notification duties, and pilots for information banks and user‑controlled personal data stores.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15David Murakami Wood Queens University (CA)
- 10:19Andrew Adams Meiji University (JP)
- 25:24Kiyoshi Murata Meiji University (JP)
- 26:01Kazue Sako NEC Corporation (JP)
- 35:44Fumio Shimpo Keio University (JP)
- 56:37Kaori Ishii Univerity of Tsukuba (JP)
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