{"id":230355,"date":"2026-04-02T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/takaichi-addresses-privacy-concerns-over-intelligence-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:55:09","slug":"takaichi-addresses-privacy-concerns-over-intelligence-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/takaichi-addresses-privacy-concerns-over-intelligence-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi Addresses Privacy Concerns over Intelligence Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2026040200694\/\">Takaichi Addresses Privacy Concerns over Intelligence Bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2026040200694\/\">https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2026040200694\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-02 06:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nippon.com\">www.nippon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"is-1\">News<\/span><span class=\"is-2\">from Japan<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolitics<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tApr 2, 2026 19:43 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, April 2 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday addressed privacy concerns regarding a bill to establish a national intelligence council aimed at enhancing the government&#8217;s intelligence capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The planned council &#8220;will not unnecessarily infringe on citizens&#8217; privacy,&#8221; Takaichi said at a House of Representatives plenary meeting, where deliberations began on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks came in response to opposition parties&#8217; criticism that the creation of such a council could lead to human rights violations and that the planned organization could be used for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The government and ruling parties aim to pass the bill during the current parliamentary session and to launch the council this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Strengthening intelligence capabilities is a key policy of the Takaichi administration. Also, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Innovation Party agreed in their coalition deal to create such a council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\">\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"is-ttl\"><span\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Jiji Press\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"cpc-casttl csp-casttl\" id=\"detail_under_series_title\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"cpc-casttl csp-casttl\" id=\"detail_under_relation_title\"\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2026040200694\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takaichi Addresses Privacy Concerns over Intelligence Bill https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/news\/yjj2026040200694\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-02 06:43:00 Source Domain: www.nippon.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/ncommon\/contents\/news\/2980946\/2980946.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230357,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230355\/revisions\/230357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}