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Japanese Government Issues Cybersecurity Guidelines

Earlier this month, a judge in Tokyo’s District Court granted a provisional injunction against Google ordering the search engine to delete a particular set of search results.

After a review of the public comments, the minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry ("METI") published on December 12 its amended ministerial guidelines on the Personal Information Protection Act.

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 guidelines set recommended measures to be taken in response to data breaches.

On March 8, the Cabinet submitted a bill to the Diet to amend the law protecting personal information held by administrative institutions.

On November 6, the National Diet enacted the Basic Act of Cybersecurity (source document in Japanese) ("Basic Act").

The joint statement states that the parties are targeting a "simultaneous finding of an adequate level of protection by both sides" by early 2018.

On October 5, after a review of public comments, the Cabinet released (source document in Japanese) the Enforcement Cabinet Order of the Personal Information Protection Act.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (hereinafter referred to as "FTC") has submitted comments to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (hereinafter referred to as "FCC")...

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Bytedance Ltd is a company that provides TikTok, an online social networking platform, through its subsidiaries.

Japan Amends Personal Information Protection Act And Reorganizes Specific Personal Information Protection Commission

The Commission aimed to unify existing ministerial guidelines under these new procedures and also released a set of specific draft guidelines, including: (i) draft guidelines regarding the provision of personal data to a foreign third party...

On July 12, 2024, the European Commission issued a provisional opinion against Company X (formerly Twitter, hereafter referred to as "X"), finding that the company violated the Digital Services Act...

As we predicted some months ago, a Bill to amend Japan’s Act on protection of personal information (Act number 57 of 2003) was submitted to the Japanese Parliament on 10th March last.

Cyber attacks and data breaches are skyrocketing around the world, as are the financial implications of these incidents. According to IBM Security's Cost of a Data Breach 2021 Report...