SOX: Lessons Learned for New Japanese Legislation

This IDC Presentation, which was offered in June 2006 in Japan, analyzes lessons learned from the U.S. struggle with compliance for the new Japanese Personal Information Protection Act (JPIPA). Regulations governing privacy have been passed worldwide and vary from country to country. Organizations doing business internationally are struggling to cope with the effort to comply across borders. Complying with federal regulations that have recently come into effect is not as straightforward as executives would have hoped as many of the laws by their nature are written with vague directives.