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Tighter telecoms guidelines would bolster Japan’s privacy protections, ministerial group says

By Sachiko Sakamaki
  • 07 Jun 2021 02:14
  • 07 Jun 2021 02:14
The protection of digital-platform users’ privacy would be boosted by updating Japan’s telecom guidelines alongside those of the privacy commission, under a proposal put forward by a working group in the country’s communications ministry.
Under proposed changes revealed on Friday, the handling of cookies, location data, device identification and other

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Sachiko Sakamaki

Senior Correspondent, Tokyo


Sachiko covers antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, privacy and data security, as well as patent disputes related to connected cars. She has an undergraduate degree from Waseda University in Tokyo and a master's degree in communications from United States International (now Alliant International) University in California. She previously worked as a journalist for Time magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Bloomberg News, and the Washington Post in Japan.

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