The Diet passed an amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information that permits the creation of a Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), effective in January, TRUSTe Blog reports. The PIPC “will be established as an independent authority,” the report states, in an effort “to bolster Japan’s expected request for a determination of adequacy by the European Commission.” Updates to the law were also found in Article 24, which “imposes restrictions on the transfer of personal information of Japanese citizens to third parties in foreign countries,” the report continues, adding that “draft rules for implementing Article 24 specifically call out a company’s APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules certification as satisfying this requirement.”
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