ICRT Radio News
Date: 2018-07-05 

The National Development Council has established a new centralized office
responsible for coordinating personal data protection related issues between
government agencies.

According to the council, the office will be in charge of personal data
protection and it plans to seek an “adequacy decision” from the European
Union based on the E-U’s General Data Protection Regulation.

That regulation outlines a strict personal data protection legal framework
and regulates the processing by individuals, a companies or an organizations
of personal data relating to individuals within the E-U.

N-D-C head Chen Mei-ling visited the E-U at the end of May to discuss
Taiwan’s willingness to seek an adequacy decision.

And Chen says the office will hold additional talks with the E-U after it
releases a report on the assessment of Taiwan’s request for an adequacy
decision.

Previously, no single body was responsible for the management of personal
data protection in Taiwan, which resulted in problems related to
inter-ministry coordination.    [SOURCE]