Abstract
As a project of ROIS promoting the use of open data, a special lecture was given by the legal adiviser Mr. Jiro Makino at the 2nd open public symposium of Center for Social Data Restructuring of the ROIS on the 13th of March 2018. This lecture focused on legal regulations and ethical guidelines related to personal information protection for promoting the use of social survey data and social big data. Prior to the lecture, lecture materials were prepared by the attorney’s office and the researchers of Center for Social Data Structuring.
In this paper, from a viewpoint of social survey researchers, based on the materials prepared for the lecture, the present authors summarze the points of the legulations and ethical guidlines, including some information of developments after the symposium. This shows mainly the current situations in Japan, but it also touches possible influence on general academic research of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforced in Europe from May 2018.
Although actual law enforcement may not be completely consistent with interpretations of researchers, this paper is intended as a reference for us to develop humanities, social science and policy-making based on empirical social dataer the symposium.
