[Ecommerce] Computer Processed Personal Data Protection Act

[Jeff Williams]

Tekeshi and all,

  Too bad I don't read Japanese very well.  Is there a english version
of this URL around?  In any event I have been getting news from
several of our members in Japan in this regard, and I see implications
with ICANN and Whois data here.  Does this bill cover that
side of the privacy concern?  Please advise.

Takeshi Muramoto wrote:

> 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
>
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