On March 8, the Cabinet submitted a bill (source document in Japanese) to the Diet to amend the law protecting personal information held by administrative institutions. These amendments mirror recent amendments affecting personal information held by the private sector under the Personal Information Protection Act and set new rules for private entities to utilize personal information held by administrative institutions through an anonymization process. The bill passed the Diet on May 20 and will take effect before September 2017.
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