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Japan's PrivacyMark system as a good illustration of certification mechanisms
Journal of Data Protection & Privacy,
6
(1),
37-50
(2023)
Abstract
Privacy and data protection certification mechanisms have increasingly been attracting great interest. Japan was one of the first countries in the world to introduce privacy and data protection certification mechanisms and privacy and data protection seals and marks. At the prefectural level, this began in 1990, and at the national level, in 1998. JIPDEC (then the Japan Information Processing and Development Corporation) launched the PrivacyMark system in April 1998. Applications from private enterprises are assessed by JIPDEC or one of 19 designated assessment bodies. There were 1,380 registered assessors (391 lead assessors, 282 assessors and 707 provisional assessors) as at 1st April, 2022. There are three assessor training bodies. The number of registered entities has been increasing year by year, and as at 10th May, 2023, the number of PrivacyMark Entities is 17,447.
Keywords: privacy; data protection; PrivacyMark; JIS Q 15001; JIPDEC; granting body; designated assessment bodies; assessors
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Author's Biography
Masao Horibe is Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. He served as First Chairman of the (Specific) Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC), Japan for five years from 2014 to 2018. He has also been Vice-Chair of the Working Party on Information Security and Privacy of the OECD (1996–2008), Chairman of the JIPDEC PrivacyMark System Committee (1998–2013) and Recipient of the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award in 2015. He is currently Managing Director of the Japan DPO Association (2019–present). One of his recent English articles is ‘The Realization of Mutual Adequacy Recognition Between Japan and the EU and Issues Raised in the Process’, Global Privacy Law Review, vol. 1, no. 3 (2020).
