# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百二十二条 (Article 122) - Law: 個人情報の保護に関する法律 (Act on the Protection of Personal Information), 平成十五年法律第五十七号 - English title "Act on the Protection of Personal Information": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百二十二条 (Article 122)（従事者の義務） — address `art-122` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-122 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-122 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十二条（従事者の義務） — (Employee's Obligations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-122 **第一項** 行政機関等匿名加工情報等の取扱いに従事する行政機関等の職員若しくは職員であった者、前条第三項の委託を受けた業務に従事している者若しくは従事していた者又は行政機関等において行政機関等匿名加工情報等の取扱いに従事している派遣労働者若しくは従事していた派遣労働者は、その業務に関して知り得た行政機関等匿名加工情報等の内容をみだりに他人に知らせ、又は不当な目的に利用してはならない。 art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-122/par-1 An employee or former employee of an administrative entity handling anonymized personal information and other related information of the administrative entity, a person engaged in or formerly engaged in the entrusted activities referred to in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, or a staffing agency worker or former staffing agency worker that handles anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity must not disclose anonymized personal information and other related information of an administrative entity acquired in the course of that person's work to other persons without reason, or use that information for an unjust purpose. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-122/par-1: 前条第三項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十一条第三項 (Article 121, paragraph (3)), art-121/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-121/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-121/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百二十一条第二項（識別行為の禁止等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-121/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/415AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4241/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 190 — 個人情報の保護に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10