Takuya Hirai, minister of digital transformation, bows when a package of bills related to digital reform was passed by a May 12 plenary session of the Upper House. (Koichi Ueda)
The Diet enacted a raft of bills on May 12 that will streamline how governments in Japan handle and share data and revise how personal data is protected under the law.
But opposition critics argued that the ruling coalition failed to address problematic loopholes in its rush to push the bill package through the current Diet session. Some have even warned parts of the revisions could relax rules surrounding personal data in some jurisdictions.
Fraudulent signatures in recall petition rattle Aichi s political world Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Aichi Prefectural Police investigators confiscate boxes of signatures in a recall petition against the prefectural governor in February in Nagoya. | CHUNICHI SHIMBUN
Chunichi Shimbun May 10, 2021
Over the past few months, Aichi Prefecture has been rattled by the discovery of fraudulent signatures gathered for a recall petition calling for Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura to resign over his handling of a 2019 exhibition.
A joint report by the Chunichi Shimbun and the Nishinippon Shimbun revealed that many part-time workers in the city of Saga in Kyushu were mobilized to write the signatures. In addition, it also came to light that the same person made the fingerprints that need to accompany the signatures.
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Following Britain s Brexit from the European Union, the
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recently published its
opinion about the EU Commission s forthcoming plan to recognize
the United Kingdom as an adequate jurisdiction for data transfers
from the EU. Classifying the UK as GDPR Adequate State may
authorize data transferring from other EU states to the UK.
The EDPB s opinion is generally supportive of the
forthcoming recognition of the UK as an adequate jurisdiction, yet
it indicates several issues which the EU commission should examine
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South Korea has issued its first ever sanction against an AI technology company for the “indiscreet processing of personal information.”
The recipient of the honor is Seoul-based start-up Scatter Lab, who was ordered to pay 103.3 million won (US$93k) for not obtaining proper user permissions.
The company illegally harvested data from 9.4 billion conversations conducted by 600,000 users of its other apps, Science of Love and Text At ,
The Science of Love app focused on conversations between romantic partners to predict a partner s true levels of affection. Those insecure about their mates could pay equivalent US$4.50 to upload their KakaoTalk messenger logs to Science of Love and be reassured of (or disappointed by) their partner s level of love.
The guidance was issued because it was judged that the app operator had failed to provide a sufficient monitoring system to protect the "secrets of communications" as required by law.