Prime Minister in the digital market “to respect the autonomy” to submit bill next year November 12 19:05
In order to ensure transparency in the digital market, Prime Minister Abe stated at the government's future investment conference that “the rules will respect independence in a way that does not impede innovation”, and specific rules for overseas giant IT companies The idea was summarized and the idea of submitting the bill to the ordinary Diet next year was shown.
While it was pointed out that a giant IT company called GAFA is strengthening its monopoly power, at the Future Investment Conference held at the Prime Minister's Office, the rules for the digital market were the subject of discussion.
In this, the official of the Cabinet Secretariat clarified how the commission for listings and the display order of product search results are decided for companies that operate large-scale online shopping and app stores He explained the idea of the new bill, including the requirement to conduct regular reports on business activities.
In response, Prime Minister Abe said, “The new bill requires transparency of transactions, and rules that respect independence as much as possible without obstructing innovation. Considering the application of laws to foreign operators as well. “We will do this,” he said, summarizing specific rules for overseas giant IT companies within the year, and his intention to submit a bill to the regular Diet next year.
In addition, at the 12:00 meeting, it is pointed out that there are many people who feel uncomfortable about "targeting advertisements" that display advertisements by guessing products and services of interest from customer information among online advertisements. Therefore, we confirmed that we would start a fact-finding survey.