Japan is moving closer to requiring companies to stop using personal information for such purposes as advertising if requested by consumers, a government plan showed Thursday.
The proposal was part of an interim report issued by the government's Personal Information Protection Commission, which is discussing revising the private information protection law in 2020.
It would be the first amendment to the law, which entered took into force in May 2017, since a clause saying it must reviewed every three years was added later that year.