[LINK] Data Protection in Japan, Talk, Sydney, 15 September 2010
Tom Worthington
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Tue Sep 14 08:29:52 AEST 2010
Professor Andrew Adams <http://www.a-cubed.info/>, from the Centre for
Business Information Ethics, Meiji University will be speaking on
"Information privacy & data protection in Japan" at the Cyberspace Law
and Policy Centre, Teaching room 101, UNSW Faculty of Law building,
Sydney, 1 pm, 15 September 2010: <http://www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/>.
At Australian National University on Monday, Andrew asserted that it was
a myth that Japan does not have a concept of privacy similar to western
countries:
<http://blog.tomw.net.au/2010/09/greetings-from-australian-national.html>.
This work is reported in paper "The Development of Japanese Data
Protection":
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In 2003, Japan enacted its first private-sector data protection
legislation, complementing the concurrent update of the public-sector
regulations. The publicly stated goal of the Japanese government was to
support trade with Europe by providing suitably strong protection to
qualify for European data-export approval. In this paper we examine the
internal social and political pressures that led to the adoption of
apparently strong private-sector data protection, despite prior long
resistance to such a move. The pressures we have identified include
direct and indirect effects of Japanese economic difficulties since the
early 1990s, media pressure to update public-sector rules because of the
introduction of Juki Net, and similar media pressure to apply similar
rules to the private sector. We also examine the role that the
technology of kanji input systems played on the lack of urgency in
demands for private-sector data protection until 2000.
Keywords: privacy, data protection, Japan
From:The Development of Japanese Data Protection, Andrew A. Adams,
Meiji University, Kiyoshi Murata, Meiji University, Yohko Orito, Ehime
University, Policy & Internet, Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 5, 2010
<http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol2/iss2/art5/>.
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