( January 12, 2023, 04:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission today released its draft report on the use of facial recognition technology in surveillance cameras by the private sector. The report, compiled as a result of a year-long discussion by an expert panel convened under the PPC, clarifies the existing personal information protection law as it pertains to facial images and biometric data. The report addresses issues including notification, collection and use of the data in large-scale public areas such as airports, train stations and retail facilities for the purposes of security and crime prevention, and includes information from judicial precedents on privacy and portrait rights that fall outside of the personal information protection law. The draft report is open for public comment until Feb. 12.The report, in Japanese, is attached....
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