Daisuke Tsuta

Associate, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Daisuke Tsuta is a senior associate at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, which he joined in 2020. Daisuke specialises in cybersecurity and privacy law. He was admitted to the bar in Japan in 2010. Daisuke worked at the Kinki Local Finance Bureau of the Ministry of Finance from 2014 to 2015, at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) from 2015 to 2017, and at the National Centre of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) from 2017 to 2020. Daisuke was in charge of amending the Act on the Protection of Personal Information Held by Administrative Organs in the MIC, and of amending the Basic Act on Cybersecurity and drafting the Q&A handbook for cybersecurity law and regulations in the NISC. He has written various books and articles including Criminal Law for Information Security I – Crimes Related to Cybersecurity (2022, Koubundou) and Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity for Legal Practice (2021, Shojihoumu).