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Japanese privacy watchdog holds roundtable on lack of progress on PETs

By Jeyup S Kwaak ( February 26, 2026, 07:18 GMT | Insight) -- Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission Japan released a summary late Wednesday of its Feb. 2 roundtable, where they discussed Japan’s slow adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies, despite the fact that they are widely considered a prerequisite to secure training of artificial intelligence models and have long been a part of US and European regulations.Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission, or PPC, released a summary late Wednesday of its Feb. 2 roundtable, where they discussed Japan’s slow adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies, or PETs, despite the fact that they are widely considered a prerequisite to secure training of artificial intelligence models and have long been a part of US and European regulations....

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