TOKYO -- A year after the European Union imposed tough new rules governing the collection of personal data, nearly half of major Japanese companies have yet to fully comply -- an increasingly risky state of affairs as Brussels cracks down on violators.
Ninety-one of 100 companies surveyed by Nikkei said they were subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, for such reasons as having customers in Europe. Of these, 41 still had some or a significant amount of work to do to come into compliance as of Thursday. While this is an improvement from the survey conducted just before the new regulations took effect last May, when 70 companies said they were not fully ready, corporate Japan still has a long way to go.
