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Article 171Scope of Application

第百七十一条(適用範囲)

This Act also applies in those cases in which, in relation to supplying a good or service to a person in Japan, a business handling personal information, a business handling pseudonymized personal information, a business handling anonymized personal information, or a business handling information related to personal information handles the personal information by which that person in Japan is identifiable, information related to personal information that is to be acquired as that personal information, or pseudonymized personal information or anonymized personal information that has been prepared by using that personal information, in a foreign country.

この法律は、個人情報取扱事業者、仮名加工情報取扱事業者、匿名加工情報取扱事業者又は個人関連情報取扱事業者が、国内にある者に対する物品又は役務の提供に関連して、国内にある者を本人とする個人情報、当該個人情報として取得されることとなる個人関連情報又は当該個人情報を用いて作成された仮名加工情報若しくは匿名加工情報を、外国において取り扱う場合についても、適用する。

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