October 18, 2021 Release of Preliminary Report on Results of Questionnaire Survey on Privacy Governance

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will release a preliminary report on the results of a questionnaire survey on privacy governance conducted for businesses and consumers. Based on the results, METI and MIC will continue promoting the dissemination and awareness-raising of a publication entitled “Guidebook for Corporate Privacy Governance in the DX Era,” which outlines what companies should do to build privacy governance.

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  Corporate privacy governance refers to the commitment of the management to proactively address privacy issues and the establishment and functioning of a system for addressing privacy issues throughout the organization to enhance the corporate value through the appropriate risk management of privacy issues and trust securement.

1．Background

In the accelerating DX era, there is a growing demand for privacy protection as well as solutions to social issues through the creation of innovations. Against this background, in August 2020, METI and MIC had a Study Group on the Model of Corporate Privacy Governance (chaired by SATOH Ichiro, Professor, the National Institute of Informatics) formulate “Guidebook for Corporate Privacy Governance in the DX Era version 1.0.” This publication summarized what companies should do to build privacy governance. In July 2021, version 1.1 was released with additional specific examples for reference.
To make this Guidebook more widely available and help companies working on privacy governance move forward with their efforts, METI and MIC have decided to release the preliminary report on the questionnaire survey on privacy governance conducted for businesses and consumers. METI and MIC plan to publish a final report on the results of the survey by the end of fiscal 2021, which will include a detailed analysis of the results and practical examples from individual interviews.

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  This questionnaire survey was conducted by the Japan Information Processing Development Corporation (JIPDEC) as part of a project commissioned by METI, i.e., the fiscal 2021 Digital Transaction Environment Development Project (Operation of Privacy-related Survey and Study Group for Data Utilization and Distribution).

2. Results of survey

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  The published material is in Japanese only.