Analysis of Measures against Personal Information Impact of Japanese Local Governments

In Japan, 24th May 2013, the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure (From now on referred to as the My Number Act) had raised. My Number system is used to confirm that information on individuals possessed by multiple agencies such as administrative agencies and local governments are information of the same person. In this paper, we analyzed the all item assessment report of the Specific Personal Information Protection Assessment conducted in local governments in Japan, etc. We investigated two directions: (1) Adequacy of risk assessment and measures, (2) Reuse of the Assessment Report.