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Now why does this relate to Japan? One of the things Shinzo Abe was working on before he got shot was Data Free Flow with Trust or DFFT. He first introduced this concept at the World Economic Forum in 2019
>The concept of Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) aims to promote the free flow of data while ensuring trust in privacy, security, and intellectual property rights. At the G20 OSAKA Summit in 2019, DFFT was mentioned for the first time, and it was further developed at the G7 Hiroshima in 2023 by endorsing the establishment of the Institutional Arrangement for Partnership (IAP) for operationalizing DFFT.
this effort has resulted in a Memorandum of Understanding between Japan and the EU
https://www.digital.go.jp/assets/contents/node/information/field_ref_resources/eea22370-19d8-4a1a-ae92-89e28476f9a1/7cda2879/20240501_news_moc_original_01.pdf
>Moreover, Japan’s Priority Policy Programme for Realising Digital Society calls to implement
the vision of Society 5.0 and work on materialising the concept of “Data Free Flow with Trust”
(DFFT) in line with the G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué and the G7 Digital and Tech
Ministers' Declaration adopted in Takasaki, Gunma in 2023 for maximising the benefit of data
flows.
>Both sides recognise that the ability to ensure transnational data flows with trust is essential for
economic growth and innovation. In this regard, both sides share the view that trust should be
built and realised through collaborative actions supported by various tools such as international
agreements, legal frameworks, guidelines, standards, technologies and other means that are
transparent and preserve the regulatory autonomy of both sides, in particular in the area of data
protection and privacy.
>As regards technologies enhancing trust, both sides share the view that secure and reliable
digital identification means are crucial for trusted digital interactions among citizens,
businesses and public authorities.
