Japan's Yotsuya Otsuka receives regulatory guidance for mishandling student data linked to child-porn case
By Sachiko Sakamaki ( February 29, 2024, 08:22 GMT | Insight) -- Japanese cram-school operator Yotsuya Otsuka received an administrative guidance today from the country’s data-protection authority for failing to take adequate security measures to protect the personal data of students. This followed the prosecution of one of its former tutors for exposing some students' personal data on social media, together with sexually explicit images of them without their consent.Japanese cram-school operator Yotsuya Otsuka received an administrative guidance today from the country’s data-protection authority for failing to take adequate security measures to protect the personal data of students. This followed the prosecution of one of its former tutors for exposing some students' personal data on social media, together with sexually explicit images of them without their consent....
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