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International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing

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Web Crawler for an Anonymously Processed Information Database

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The Japanese Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003) allows companies to deidentify personal data and to provide them to any third party without obtaining the data subject’s consent. Officially, the “Anonymously Processed Information” will eventually improve public convenience and aid big-data business. In this paper, we aim to clarify the landscape of anonymously processed information databases in Japan. Focusing on disclosed statements that specify the production and provisioning processes for anonymously processed information, we have developed an automated Web crawler system that detects such statements using heuristics associated with legal statements. We demonstrate that our crawler system performs very well in terms of processing time and detection accuracy. In addition, the resulting statistics may prove useful to others exploring the landscape of Japanese personal-data business structures.

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    (Provision of Anonymously Processed Information) Article 37 An anonymously processed information handling business operator, when providing anonymously processed information (excluding those which it produced itself by processing personal information; hereinafter the same in this Section) to a third party, shall, pursuant to rules of the Personal Information Protection Commission, in advance disclose to the public the categories of personal information contained in anonymously processed information to be provided to a third party and state to the third party explicitly to the effect that the provided information is anonymously processed information.

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  1. School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, 4-21-1 Nakano, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroaki Kikuchi, Atsuki Ono & Satoshi Ito

  2. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 5-1-1 Ofuna, Kanagawa, Japan

    Masahiro Fujita & Tadakazu Yamanaka

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  1. Hiroaki Kikuchi
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Correspondence to Hiroaki Kikuchi .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea (Republic of)

    Kangbin Yim

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen

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Kikuchi, H., Ono, A., Ito, S., Fujita, M., Yamanaka, T. (2022). Web Crawler for an Anonymously Processed Information Database. In: Barolli, L., Yim, K., Chen, HC. (eds) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing. IMIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 279. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79728-7_51

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