On December 7, 2017, the Personal Information Protection Commission released a draft amendment to the Enforcement Regulation of Personal Information Protection Act (source document in Japanese) for public comments. The amendment sets forth adequacy requirements for a foreign country in order to allow the cross-border transfer of personal data outside Japan without the data subjects' advance consent. The public comment period closed on January 5, 2018.
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