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Japan privacy commission is ready to start supervising local governments' data protection, chief says

By Toko Sekiguchi and Sachiko Sakamaki ( March 17, 2023, 09:58 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s numerous municipalities and local governments will come under the privacy commission’s supervision in April in the last step of the long process for the Personal Information Protection Commission to become the country’s fully unified data protection agency.  Despite recent data mishandling incidents that have highlighted some of the challenges ahead, Japan's privacy chief told MLex that the regulator will look to educate and train regional municipalities on data protection, while also taking enforcement measures for inappropriate or unlawful data management. Japan’s numerous municipalities and local governments will come under the privacy commission’s supervision in April in the last step of the long process for the Personal Information Protection Commission, or PPC, to become the country’s fully unified data protection agency....

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