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Date: 2018/07/05
By: International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT)

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The National Development Council (NDC) has established a new centralized office responsible for coordinating personal data protection 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 EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which became applicable in all EU member states in May.

That regulation outlines a strict personal data protection legal framework and regulates the processing by individuals, companies or an organizations of personal data relating to individuals within the EU.    [FULL  STORY]