The Japanese government is set to produce a bill to ensure fairer competition for digital businesses and more security for personal data. (Image via World Atlas)

Japan to make a bill for fair online businesses competition

Alfonsus Adi Putra
Politics & Economic
News Flash Japan
Nov 13, 2019
1935
On Tuesday, the Japanese government is considering a bill to tighten control over companies from the United States (U.S) and other digital businesses. The official from the Japanese government stated that the bill was deemed necessary to ensure the protection of user’s personal data and fairer competition.

The bill, set to be submitted to the Diet in 2020, rules how big U.S companies in Japan such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (abbreviated to GAFA), display their search results. Also, the bill will monitor the management of the websites on a daily basis.

The idea came after the meeting between the officials of the Japanese government and the senior representatives of GAFA. The senior representatives understood the bill's idea of enhancing transparency in the business transaction.

During Tuesday’s government meeting, the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, stated that the bill might “respect the autonomy of the operators” to avoid hindering innovation. Also, the Japanese PM hoped that the scope of the bill might be expanded to regulate online marketing related to the search engines and social networking services.

However, the bill hailed great concerns from the business firm. Google and Amazon stated their concerns over the regular reporting requirement, while Facebook complained that the bill sounds tighter than the European Union’s (EU) regulations.

To protect the personal data of the Japanese users, the bill will give the Japanese people a privilege to ask these business firms to either delete or suspend their data, preventing their data to be used for other purposes.

Currently, Japanese law only regulates the handling of user data collected through illicit means.

Source: https://bit.ly/2phZzrC

Business , Regulation , Technology , Privacy , E-commerce , Asia , Japan , The-Diet , Shinzo-Abe