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AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker - Japan

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Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach to generative AI foundation models. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”) Japan currently...more

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Amended Japanese Privacy Law Creates New Categories of Regulated Personal Information and Cross-Border Transfer Requirements

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The amended law comes into effect in April and covers new categories of personal information, including personal-related information and sensitive personal information. In June 2021, Japan enacted an amendment to its privacy...more

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International Privacy Laws and Clinical Trials

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Recent developments in international privacy laws have complicated the conduct of clinical trials outside of the United States. Since the privacy law of the European Union – the General Data Protection Regulation or “GDPR” –...more

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New Laws And Regulations: Insights For 2020

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A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business...more

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EU-Japan Adequacy Decision now in force

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The European Commission and the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan have agreed mutual adequacy decisions regarding the transfer of personal data. This is a significant development, and allows businesses to...more

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EU-Japan Mutual Adequacy Arrangement

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The European Commission has issued an "adequacy decision" in respect of Japan reducing the regulatory burden of transferring personal data from the EU to Japan. Japan has made an equivalent decision for transfers to the EU....more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Data Security Update | Vol. 19

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On the heels of the European Union's General Data Protection law, which went into effect in May 2018, California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")—the result of an 11th-hour compromise between...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine California's new sweeping privacy law, two U.S. agencies' report on "botnet" threats and the European Parliament's call to suspend the Privacy Shield....more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

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On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

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Global Privacy and Data Protection Roundup: Fall 2016

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Privacy and data protection continues to be an international patchwork of laws impacting how personal data is collected, secured, used and shared across borders, and how we contend with the misuse of information technology. ...more

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Evolving Data Protection Regimes in the Asia-Pacific Arena and Their Impact on Litigation: Part II – Country-Specific Policies

Part I of this article addressed basic concepts of data privacy as set out in the policies of numerous regional and multilateral organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”),...more

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