Keeping track of the new Personal Data Protection Act
Companies in Taiwan are advised to re-visit their personal data collection policies to ensure compliance with the new Personal Data Protection Act. The new law is very detailed and provides a boost to the protection of privacy and personality rights
Issue: July/August 2010
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Lee Tsai
With technological advancements, information may be collected, processed, and analysed more efficiently than ever before and it is increasingly becoming one of the most important assets of companies. Privacy concerns are raised, however, when information obtained and used relates to the personal information of individuals. Governments worldwide have promulgated legislation to protect individual privacy. On April 27 2010, the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan passed the Personal Data Protection Act (the Act), amending and renaming the Computer-Processed Data Protection Act (the CPDPA), the primary regulation currently in place governing personal data protection in Taiwan. The legislative intent behind the Act is to expand the protection afforded under the CPDPA to cover not only the collection and processing of personal data by government agencies and the “eight major industries” (including telecommunications, financial, securities, insurance, mass media, schools, hospitals and/or any other enterprises, groups or individuals designated by the Ministry of Justice of...
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