Taipei, Feb. 28 (CNA) Protesters rushed Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an's (蔣萬安) speech at a 228 Incident memorial Tuesday, with demonstrators calling on Chiang to apologize for the deadly 1947 government crackdown overseen by his purported great-grandfather former President Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石).
The Taipei City Government gave recordings of residents’ helpline calls to a private firm, violating the rights of the callers, two city councilors said yesterday.
Taipei city councilors Miao Po-ya (苗博雅), of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Wu Pei-yi (吳沛憶), of the Social Democratic Party, said the recordings were the callers’ voiceprints, and providing them to an artificial intelligence software developer without their permission violated their rights.
The contract that the city had with the company as part of Taipei’s “smart city” development did not outline penalties for mishandling the recordings, the councilors said, as they called on the city government to
ILLEGAL: A lawyer said that while the recordings were legally obtained, the city contravened the law by giving people’s personal data to a software companyBy Cheng Ming-hsiang, Kao Chia-ho and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer