Privacy · Japan — extraterritorial

Japan APPI

Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information — recently strengthened with cross-border transfer and data subject right obligations.

Regulator
Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC)
Jurisdiction
Japan — extraterritorial
Status
Active — 2022 amendments in force.
In force since
Active
Regulator's source
Who it applies to

Personal Information Handling Business Operators with personal information of data subjects in Japan.

Audit / certification status

Continuous evidence pipeline available; audit support included for all customers.

What it requires

What APPI actually requires.

These are the obligations a regulated entity owes — the things an assessor or supervisor will ask about.

01

Notification of leakage to PPC and affected data subjects.

02

Cross-border transfer requires consent or equivalent measures.

03

Pseudonymously processed information regime.

How Safeguard maps to it

Pre-mapped controls. Continuous evidence.

Each requirement above is bound to live telemetry — not screenshots. The mapping below is what your auditor or regulator sees.

PPC notification timer and template.

Cross-border transfer register with APPI-specific safeguards.

Evidence we produce

Artifacts your auditor accepts.

Each evidence artifact is signed and timestamped. Auditors can verify integrity without trusting Safeguard.

Breach register with PPC notifications.

Cross-border transfer register.

Ready for APPI?

Bring the framework. We'll walk the controls with you — section by section, evidence packet by evidence packet, with the regulators you actually have to answer to.

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