When preparing anonymized personal information (limited to those compiled in an anonymized personal information database or the equivalent; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter and Chapter VI), businesses handling personal information must process personal information in accordance with standards prescribed by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission as those necessary to make it impossible to identify a specific individual and restore the information to its original state.
個人情報取扱事業者は、匿名加工情報（匿名加工情報データベース等を構成するものに限る。以下この章及び第六章において同じ。）を作成するときは、特定の個人を識別すること及びその作成に用いる個人情報を復元することができないようにするために必要なものとして個人情報保護委員会規則で定める基準に従い、当該個人情報を加工しなければならない。
When having prepared anonymized personal information, businesses handling personal information must take measures for the management of the security of information relating to identifiers or their equivalent and individual identification codes that were deleted from personal information used to prepare the anonymized personal information, and information on the means of processing carried out pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in accordance with standards prescribed by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission as those necessary to prevent the leaking of that information.
When having prepared anonymized personal information, businesses handling personal information must disclose the categories of information on an individual that is contained in the anonymized personal information, pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission.
個人情報取扱事業者は、匿名加工情報を作成したときは、個人情報保護委員会規則で定めるところにより、当該匿名加工情報に含まれる個人に関する情報の項目を公表しなければならない。
Businesses handling personal information, before providing anonymized personal information it prepared to a third party, must disclose the categories of information on an individual that is contained in the anonymized personal information the business will provide to the third party, and the means of providing this, and state to the third party explicitly that the information the business will provide is anonymized personal information, pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission.
個人情報取扱事業者は、匿名加工情報を作成して当該匿名加工情報を第三者に提供するときは、個人情報保護委員会規則で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、第三者に提供される匿名加工情報に含まれる個人に関する情報の項目及びその提供の方法について公表するとともに、当該第三者に対して、当該提供に係る情報が匿名加工情報である旨を明示しなければならない。
Businesses handling personal information, when handling anonymized personal information it prepared by itself, must not collate the anonymized personal information with other information in order to identify a person identifiable by personal information that was used to prepare that anonymized personal information.
When having prepared anonymized personal information, businesses handling personal information must endeavor to take the necessary and appropriate measures for managing the security of the anonymized personal information, and the necessary measures for processing complaints about the preparation or other handling of the anonymized personal information, or for otherwise ensuring the proper handling of the anonymized personal information; and endeavor to disclose the content of those measures.
個人情報取扱事業者は、匿名加工情報を作成したときは、当該匿名加工情報の安全管理のために必要かつ適切な措置、当該匿名加工情報の作成その他の取扱いに関する苦情の処理その他の当該匿名加工情報の適正な取扱いを確保するために必要な措置を自ら講じ、かつ、当該措置の内容を公表するよう努めなければならない。