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Japan's trade ministry to create privacy guidelines for consumer booking apps

( June 27, 2017, 01:39 GMT | Insight) -- Japan's trade ministry will create privacy guidelines for providers of consumer booking apps that allow users to manage credit-card data and banking information, the Nikkei newspaper reports. Japan's trade ministry will create privacy guidelines for providers of consumer booking apps that allow users to manage credit-card data and banking information, the Nikkei newspaper reports. Many companies that provide such apps are small businesses that don't have adequate information protection mechanisms. The ministry wants these companies to work with credit-card issuers to implement measures to better manage private data and fight cyberattacks. The ministry will release the guidelines by the end of this fiscal year and urge companies that have failed to abide by the guidelines to improve their compliance, the report says. ...

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