Taipei, Aug. 20 (CNA) A proposed bill to regulate the content of online platforms has been shelved, amid heavy criticism from service providers and the public, who have expressed concerns about the implications for free speech, privacy and the future of the internet industry.
The government should include digital platform accountability issues in bilateral trade negotiations with the US, the Campaign for Media Reform said yesterday.
The group made the remark in an information session on the digital intermediary service draft act organized by the National Communications Commission.
The draft act, which is based on the EU’s Digital Service Act, was proposed to tackle rising challenges brought by digital intermediary service providers, including dissemination of disinformation and illegal content.
The commission plans to host three information sessions and a public hearing on the bill to hear comments from stakeholders. Yesterday’s session was attended mainly by media
The Constitutional Court yesterday found that the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) allowing access to the national health database for academic research was partly unconstitutional.
In the court’s Interpretation No. 13, Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) said that given the lack of an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure data protection under the National Health Insurance Act (全民健保法), the act should be revised within three years to improve personal data protection.
Health authorities have not clearly stipulated the procedures for the use, organization, deletion, termination and withdrawal of information in the health insurance database, which violated laws on personal-data retention,
RESEARCH: The Constitutional Court cited the lack of an independent monitoring mechanism to ensure data protection under the National Health Insurance ActBy Wu Cheng-feng and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Digital Affairs is to be launched on Aug. 27, with Minister Without Portfolio Audrey Tang (唐鳳) serving as its first minister, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said yesterday.
The new ministry is to promote interdisciplinary cooperation in digital services, complete and apply the “Data for Social Good” system and facilitate technology and data democratization.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University associate engineering professor Chiueh Her-ming (闕河鳴) and iPass Corp chairman Lee Huai-jen (李懷仁) are to serve as political deputy ministers.
Tang must relinquish her minister without portfolio duties before assuming the position, Lo said, adding that her successor would