Changes to Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act
22 September 2015
Japan’s National Diet passed a bill earlier this month amending PIPA to strengthen the data protection regime and creating (with effect from 1 January 2016) a central regulator with enforcement powers. Most of the other amendments will come into force within two years; these include, along with other significant changes, the introduction of a cross-border transfer restriction and expansion of the PIPA’s territorial scope.