[Ecommerce] Computer Processed Personal Data Protection Act

[Takeshi Muramoto]

2/6/2003

press: Mainichi Shimbun

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20030206-00000148-mai-pol

(Japanese)



The government and the ruling parties determined concretely the contents of
the penal regulations in the draft of  Computer Processed Personal Data
Protection Act held by Administrative Organs proposals, such as a
governmental agency, on February 5, 2003.

Although this bill was submitted to the National Diet previously, it
rejected by the extraordinary Diet session of the last autumn. It is due to
be submitted to the National Diet again.

Due to the draft, when the personnel of a governmental agency and the former
personnel provide a third person without a just reason with personal
information in this bill (disclosure), it sentences to two or less year’s
penal servitude, or a 1 million or less yen fine.

This bill is due to impose one or less year of penal servitude, or a 500,000
or less yen fine, when the personnel of a governmental agency and the former
personnel abuse authority and collected and plagiarize personal information
for the inaccurate purpose again.

All the contents of the bill which the government proposes for Parliament
again, including the Act for Protection of Computer Processed Personal Data
held by Administrative Organs proposal for a private sector, now became
concrete.

The government is going to submit these bills to Parliament, and aims at
Parliament formation now in mid-February, 2003.

Takeshi Muramoto