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January 2021

Summary of Laws Relating to Personal Information Protection (Mainland China)

March 2019

In case of a police agency searching missing individuals and needing to request a household registration office to provide the contact telephone numbers of the missing individuals and of their relatives (family members) which they have provided when they handled household registration matters, such request meets the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Law (Taiwan)

November 2018

The FSC orders that a bills finance company with a net worth of over NT$10 billion and an asset of over NT$100 billion shall set up an information security supervisor (Taiwan)

November 2018

Explanation by the Ministry of Justice concerning whether a government agency may impose a period when a company under investigation for its alleged violation of the Personal Data Protection Law should provide relevant materials (Taiwan)

November 2018

If specific personal data in the medical image data collected by a public agency can be regarded as non-personal data after being de-identified, the Personal Data Protection Law certainly does not apply to any subsequent provision of such data for use by external parties (Taiwan)

November 2018

If a photo on an identity card has been converted by an algorithm and cannot be used to directly or indirectly identify such specific individual, such photo is not regarded as personal data and, therefore, is not governed by the Personal Data Protection Law (Taiwan)