Japan considers strict data law for tech giants

Japan is considering applying domestic privacy protection rules on foreign tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, Japanese media reported.

The country should consider a legal revision of laws that enables it to impose "secrecy of communications" rules on overseas-based information technology giants, a communications ministry panel said on Monday in a draft on issues concerning privacy protection.

The draft also called for studying ways to strengthen law enforcement by requiring foreign tech companies to have local agents in Japan.