Japan's “Act on the Protection of Personal Information“ Triennial Review and Current Status for AI Regulation

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Organising Institution

Meiji University

Japan

  • Academic 3
  • Business 2
  • Policy 1
Currently in Japan, a "Triennial Review Study Group" has been convened to revise the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and an interim report has been issued. This includes clarifying provisions on the handling of personal information, introducing Consumer Organization Collective Litigation (group action), and reviewing the surcharge, administrative order, and criminal penalty systems. Discussions on AI regulations are also underway at the Cabinet Office's AI System Study Group. We will review this situation from the perspective of independent researchers and practitioners, and provide responses from researchers and practitioners on the European side. We will be conducting this international discussion with a particularly strong interest in the future of adequacy decisions.

Questions to be answered

  1. What is the status of the revision of Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information?
  2. What is not covered by the Triennial Review?
  3. What is the current situation regarding AI regulation in Japan?
  4. What are the new adequacy standards? Are class actions and AI regulation part of them?

Moderator

Yasutaka Machimura

Seijo University - Japan

Specialty: Civil Procedure, Cyberlaw, Consumer Law Professor emeritus at Hokkaido University, Invited Research Fellow at Université de Poitiers. Books: French Civil Procedure in 21st Century, The Special Law on Consumer Litigation (in Japan).

Speaker

Yoichiro Itakura

Hikari Sogoh Law Offices - Japan

Yoichiro specializes in Data Protection and Cyber Law, and has served as a member of various expert committees related to government agencies, academic societies, and bar associations. He received B.A. in Policy Management from Keio University in 2002, Master of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2004, and J.D. from Keio University in 2007.

Speaker

Akemi Yokota

Meiji University - Japan

Since 1 April 2023, Akemi has been a professor of administrative and environmental law at Meiji University School of Law. She conducts research on data protection law, the relationship between AI and administrative regulation, and the use of AI by government agencies, and participates in advisory committees on the use of AI by government agencies.From 2019 to 2021, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Speaker

Laura Drechsler

KU Leuven - Belgium

Since 1 January 2024, Laura is an Assistant Professorat KU Leuven for data law as well as a researcher for the Belgian State Archives as part of a FED-tWIN project, via which she is studying the intersection of EU data protection law with EU data law from a human rights perspective.