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The New Japanese Privacy Law: What Businesses Need to Know

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Understand how data breaches led to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), and how businesses must adapt to comply...

On June 5, Japan enacted a new set of amendments to its data-privacy law, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). These Diet-approved updates are part of the APPI's "every three years" review policy, but the changes go far beyond minor tweaks to existing Japanese privacy law. Taken as a whole, the 2020 amendments mark a further expansion of the APPI's scope, following in the footsteps of previous expansions. They increase the obligations of companies to be transparent and secure with the personal data of Japanese residents or risk incurring criminal penalties. The major part

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