# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第百七十九条 (Article 179) - 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: 第百七十九条 (Article 179) — address `art-179` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-179 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-179 - 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. --- ### 第百七十九条 art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-179 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-179 **第一項** 個人情報取扱事業者（その者が法人（法人でない団体で代表者又は管理人の定めのあるものを含む。第百八十四条第一項において同じ。）である場合にあっては、その役員、代表者又は管理人）若しくはその従業者又はこれらであった者が、その業務に関して取り扱った個人情報データベース等（その全部又は一部を複製し、又は加工したものを含む。）を自己若しくは第三者の不正な利益を図る目的で提供し、又は盗用したときは、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-179/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-179/par-1 If a business handling personal information (or its officer, representative or administrator if it is a corporation (including an organization without legal personality that has made provisions for a representative or manager; the same applies in Article 184, paragraph (1))), its employee, or a person who used to be that business or employee has provided or misappropriated a personal information database or the equivalent (including a personal information database or the equivalent all or part of which has been reproduced or processed) that they handled in the course of their business for the purpose of seeking their own or a third party's illegal profits, they are subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or to a fine of not more than 500,000 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-179/par-1: 第百八十四条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十四条第一項 (Article 184, paragraph (1)), art-184/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-183/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-183/par-1 - 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百八十四条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-184/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-184/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch personal-information-protection-act-20261010T182616-001, translated 2026-10-11 - 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