改正ストーカー規制法が成立　ＧＰＳ悪用、対象に追加―８月にも全面施行

　改正ストーカー規制法が１８日、衆院本会議で可決、成立した。全地球測位システム（ＧＰＳ）機器を悪用して、相手の承諾なく位置情報を把握する行為などを規制対象に追加した。同法の改正は３回目。８月にも全面的に施行される。
　改正法は、相手の車などに無断でＧＰＳ機器を取り付ける行為自体を規制。アプリを悪用して相手のスマートフォンの位置情報を勝手に取得する行為も対象とした。
　警察庁によると、装置を使って位置情報を取得する行為を規制しており、今後、技術の進歩でＧＰＳ機器とは別の装置が出現して悪用されても、迅速に対応できるという。（2021/05/18-14:22）

The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted on Tuesday a bill to amend the stalker regulation law.
   The amendment, which adds collecting people's location information using GPS devices without their consent to the list of acts subject to regulation, was approved at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet. The bill cleared the House of Councillors, the upper chamber, in April. It was the third time for the law to be revised.
   The revised law, to be put into full force in August, regulates the act of attaching GPS equipment to vehicles and other items without their owners' permission. Also banned is to obtain location information of people's smartphones through apps without their authorization.
   Even if new cutting-edge location-tracking devices other than GPS are developed in the future and they are used in stalking cases, police will be able to tackle such incidents swiftly because the revamped law bans obtaining people's whereabouts using "devices," according to the National Police Agency.
   The scope of places for stalking subject to regulation was expanded to newly include "current locations" of targets, on top of their homes, schools and workplaces, as stalkers in some past cases were able to identify real-time locations of their targets based on social media posts.