A general introduction to the current state of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity in Taiwan - including an overview of the law and practice, a review of the past year's developments and future prospects.
The Constitutional Court is on April 26 to hear arguments on whether the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) has breached the privacy of individuals by allowing third parties to access the National Health Insurance (NHI) database for research purposes.
In a letter written to the agency in 2012, former Taiwan Association of Human Rights secretary-general Tsai Chi-hsun (蔡季勳) and other civic group representatives objected to the third-party use of their personal data stored in the NHI system.
The data should not be used for businesses that were irrelevant to the system, they said.
The agency replied that it manages the