# 個人情報の保護に関する法律 / Act on the Protection of Personal Information — 第四十四条 (Article 44) - 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（匿名加工情報の提供） — address `art-44` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-44 - 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. --- ### 第四十四条（匿名加工情報の提供） — (Providing Anonymized Personal Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-44 **第一項** 匿名加工情報取扱事業者は、匿名加工情報（自ら個人情報を加工して作成したものを除く。以下この節において同じ。）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。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-44/par-1 Businesses handling anonymized personal information, before providing anonymized personal information (excluding those into which they have processed personal information themselves; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) to a third party, must disclose the categories of information on an individual that is contained in the anonymized personal information it will provide to the third party, and the means of providing this, and state to the third party explicitly that the information it will provide is anonymized personal information, pursuant to Order of the Personal Information Protection Commission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 第百四十八条第一項（勧告及び命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-148/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-148/par-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 - 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