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Article 121Prohibition of Identifying Persons

第百二十一条(識別行為の禁止等)

Except cases based on laws and regulations, in handling anonymized personal information an administrative entity holds, the administrative organ's head or administrative entity must not collate that 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.

行政機関の長等は、行政機関等匿名加工情報を取り扱うに当たっては、法令に基づく場合を除き、当該行政機関等匿名加工情報の作成に用いられた個人情報に係る本人を識別するために、当該行政機関等匿名加工情報を他の情報と照合してはならない。

An administrative organ's head or administrative entity must take necessary measures for proper management of the anonymized personal information the administrative entity holds, deleted information prescribed in Article 109, paragraph (4), and information on the method of the processing as performed under Article 116, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity" in this Article and the following Article), in accordance with the criteria specified by Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission as necessary for preventing the leaking of anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity.

行政機関の長等は、行政機関等匿名加工情報、第百九条第四項に規定する削除情報及び第百十六条第一項の規定により行った加工の方法に関する情報(以下この条及び次条において「行政機関等匿名加工情報等」という。)の漏えいを防止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、行政機関等匿名加工情報等の適切な管理のために必要な措置を講じなければならない。

The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis if an administrative entity entrusts (including entrustment via two or more layers) a person to handle anonymized personal information and other related information of the administrative entity, and that person performs those entrusted activities.

前二項の規定は、行政機関等から行政機関等匿名加工情報等の取扱いの委託(二以上の段階にわたる委託を含む。)を受けた者が受託した業務を行う場合について準用する。

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