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Japan: Regulator to set rules for data-sharing tie-ups

By  |  December 2, 2018

According to a report from Nikkei, Japan’s antitrust regulator will craft rules for cross-sector partnerships in high-tech fields like automated driving and connected devices, seeking to prevent monopolies on big data and intellectual property.

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    In planning conferences starting in December, the Japan Fair Trade Commission’s (JFTC) Competition Policy Research Center aims to clarify at what point inter-industry data sharing crosses the line into illegality. It aims to reach a conclusion as soon as the summer, with the JFTC expected to use the rules as the basis for new guidelines on antitrust law.

    Having a clear set of rules is expected to prevent reorganizations by Japanese businesses from being hobbled, at a time when US information technology giants like Google and Amazon are enlarging themselves even further through cross-sector partnerships.

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