Digital Platforms

As the number of digital platforms grows exponentially, they garner significant attention as venues for providing services and data utilization, and their use raises a broad range of legal issues, including:

• Data protection
• Transparency
• Advertising
• Payments
• Antitrust and competition
• Outsourcing
• Ethics
• Consumer rights

Our lawyers have significant practical experience in these areas and advise on all legal issues relating to establishing and operating digital platforms in various fields of business.

 

When advising foreign clients, our firm can field a team of expert Japanese lawyers and foreign lawyers who have relevant experience and bi-cultural sensitivity. Our team can do business and draft documents in Japanese, English, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, and Marathi, and provides services around the clock through our global affiliated offices.

 

 

Related Practices

Related Publications

• "Survey on Data Collaboration and Utilization of AI, etc. in the Healthcare Sector," the Cabinet Secretariat's National Strategy Office of Information and Communication Technology (Commissioned by Seed Planning, Inc., recommissioned to NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc. and Atsumi & Sakai) (June 2020) [Co-author]
• Guidebook: Contracts and Practices of AI and Data Business, Shojihomu (2020) [Co-author]
• "APPA –Authorized Public Purpose Access: Building Trust in Data Flows for Well-being and Innovation," posted on the website of The World Economic Forum LLC [Contributor]

 

Related Materials

• "Guidelines for Linking MaaS-related Data (in Japanese)," Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (March 2020) [Co-author]
• "Report on Model Terms and Conditions for Data Sharing-type (Platform-type) Contracts (in Japanese)", Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (March 2020) [Co-author]
• "Contract Guidelines on Utilization of AI and Data Version (in Japanese), "Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry（December 2019) [Co-author]
• "Research Study on Recent Trends of Data Protection Acts in Other Countries (in Japanese),” Personal Information Protection Commission (2018) [Co-author]
• "Final Report entitled "Negotiation, Cooperation and Coordination Between AI Systems (in Japanese)," as a member of a project by the Council on Competitiveness-Nippon (COCN) (February, 2018)

 

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