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The bills related to digital reform, including the creation of the Digital Agency and the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act, were approved by the Cabinet Committee of the House of Representatives on the 2nd, and were approved by most of the ruling parties. The bill was amended in several places, including clarifying the consideration for people with disabilities, but the amendment to toughen the requirements for the unintentional use of personal information requested by the Constitutional Democratic Party was rejected. Auxiliary resolutions have been passed in the same vein, but they are not legally binding. The deliberation time is approximately 27 and a half hours while handling 5 invoices and 63 invoices at the same time. Concerns remain that the government collects personal information without the person’s consent. (Shunsuke Inoue)
When the related bill is approved, the information systems of the national and local governments will be unified and standardized, and the personal information protection system that was dismantled by the private sector, government agencies and local governments will be unified, and It will unify the exchange of information. be facilitated.
◆ Rejection of a stricter use for purposes other than those intended.
The proposed amendment presented by the Constitutional Democratic Party describes the requirements for administrative agencies to use personal information for purposes other than the intended purpose, based on the “reasonable reason” of the original draft, “if not used, it will significantly impede the the correct execution of the business “and the” necessary minimum rank “The pillar is to limit it to the” use in “.
The object of the Protection Law is “the right to decide on the handling of personal information” in order to strengthen the participation of the person in the collection and use of personal information, since the use without the consent of the person can be extended indefinitely if The original plan is left as is and requested that the guarantee of the (right to self-control of information) be clearly established. The ruling party opposed the project’s main goal of “using data.”
Instead of the rejected amendment, the Constitutional Democratic Party jointly filed and passed an incidental resolution requesting that “reasonable reason” be strictly recognized and that the Personal Data Protection Commission monitor the appropriateness of the decision.
◆ “The incidental resolution does not bind the government”
Kyoko Oe, a lawyer who criticizes the bill as a “digital surveillance bill,” said in an interview with this newspaper that the incidental resolution “has no legal effect that binds the government.” “There are still a lot of problems left,” he said of the 28-point resolution.
The government and the ruling party expect the bill to be approved in the Chamber of Deputies next week and approved by the end of the month. Among the related bills, the “Project for the Standardization of the Information System of Local Public Organizations”, which obliges local governments to use information systems that comply with national standards, will be deliberated by the General Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.
