Japan, EU Move to Close Deal on Easing Cross-Border Data Transfers

The European Union and Japan are close to finalizing a data privacy pact that will tear down legal barriers and ease the flow of personal data between the EU and the Asian nation.

Japan will formally recognize that the EU’s data protection regime, the General Data Protection Regulation provides equivalent privacy protections to its law after the EU makes a comparable finding that Japan’s privacy law is equivalent to the GDPR, Satoru Hamaguchi, director of Japan’s independent Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC), told Bloomberg Law.

The European Commission has said it plans to recognize Japan’s law by the end of ...