# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第六十七条 (Article 67) - 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: 第六十七条 (Article 67)（従事者の義務） — address `art-67` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-67 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-67 - 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. --- ### 第六十七条（従事者の義務） — (Employee's Obligations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-67 **第一項** 個人情報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、前条第二項各号に定める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個人情報の取扱いに従事している派遣労働者（労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律（昭和六十年法律第八十八号）第二条第二号に規定する派遣労働者をいう。以下この章及び第百七十六条において同じ。）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個人情報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-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-67/par-1 An employee or a former employee of an administrative entity that handles personal information, a person engaged in or formerly engaged in business prescribed in each item of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, or a staffing agency worker or a former staffing agency worker (meaning a staffing agency worker prescribed in Article 2, item (ii) of the Act on Securing the Proper Operation of Worker Dispatching Businesses and Protecting Dispatched Workers (Act No. 88 of 1985); hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter and Article 176) that handles personal information must not disclose personal information acquired in the course of that employee's work to other persons without reason or use this information for an unjust purpose. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-67/par-1: 前条第二項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第六十六条第二項 (Article 66, paragraph (2)), art-66/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-66/par-2 - art-67/par-1: 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律（昭和六十年法律第八十八号）第二条第二号 → 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-2/par-1/item-2 - art-67/par-1: 第百七十六条 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第百七十六条 (Article 176), art-176 — https://japanlaw.org/en/personal-information-protection-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-176 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律 第三十一条第三項（情報提供等の記録についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/my-number-act/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/425AC0000000027/art-31/par-3 --- ## 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