August 3, 2022 Solicitation of Opinions on Draft Report of Working Group on Appropriate Handling of User Information

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will solicit opinions from Thursday, August 4, through Thursday, August 25, 2022, on a Draft Report of the Working Group on Appropriate Handling of User Information formulated by the Working Group (chaired by OHASHI Hiroshi, Vice President of the University of Tokyo, and Professor at Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo).

1. Background

As a working group (WG) under the Study Group on Governance of Cybersecurity and Data in Telecommunications Business, MIC has held sessions of the WG on Appropriate Handling of User Information since June 17, 2022, to discuss details of rules on the appropriate handling of user information by telecommunications carriers in consideration of the Act Partially Amending the Telecommunications Business Act (Act No. 70 of 2022).
As the WG has formulated a Draft Report of the Working Group on Appropriate Handling of User Information as shown in the attached PDF, MIC will solicit opinions on the draft report.

2. Subject of solicitation of opinions

Draft Report of the Working Group on Appropriate Handling of User Information

3. Solicitation period

From Thursday, August 4, through Thursday, August 25, 2022 (Opinions must be received by no later than this deadline.)

4. Submission method

For details, please see the procedure of solicitation of opinions.

5. Future schedule

MIC will take into consideration the submitted opinions and release the finalized report.

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