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Line data scandal highlights perils of storing information across borders
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Messaging app Line to transfer users data to Japan for security
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A China-based company entrusted by Line Corp. with system development work had access to the personal information of Line app users in Japan at one point. | BLOOMBERG
Kyodo, Jiji Mar 17, 2021
Messaging app provider Line Corp. said Wednesday its users personal information had been accessed by technicians in China without users being informed as required by law.
Line, whose app is used by over 86 million people in Japan, says in its data protection guideline that customers personal information can be transferred overseas. But it does not specify the name of a foreign country despite being required to do so under a legal change last year.
Line users info accessed by technicians in China without consent
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published : 17 Mar 2021 at 18:50
7 FILE PHOTO: The logo of free messaging app Line is pictured on a smartphone and the company s stuffed toy in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo, Japan, Sept 23, 2014. (Reuters)
Messaging app provider Line Corp said Wednesday its app users personal information had been accessed by technicians in China without users being informed as required by law.
Line, whose app is used by over 86 million of Japan s some 126 million people, says in its data protection guideline that customers personal information can be transferred overseas. But it does not specify the name of any foreign country despite being required to do so under a legal change last year.
Japan: APPI revisions seek to support digitalisation
Takuya Hasegawa of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu explain how the proposed amendments to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information will improve the efficiency of data usage throughout Japanese industries March 15 2021
The Japanese government has recently been pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to ensure Japanese laws are in step with the rapid digitalisation occurring in Japanese society.
On February 9 2021, the Japanese cabinet submitted drafts of six acts related to digitalisation reform to the National Diet, comprised of the Basic Act on the Formation of a Digitalized Society (to replace the Basic Act on the Formation of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society) and other related statutes. Among them is the draft of the Act on the Amendment of Related Laws for Formation of Digitalized Society (the Act).
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