Act before the 2002 amendment generalized its application. • Nonwaivable rights to request to inspect, copy, amend, delete, or stop collecting personal data for individuals. • Requires disclosure of collected data categories. • Enact civil liabilities for data misuse and/or breach. Personal Data Protection Act
over-broad license and general confusion within the bureaucracy. • Consent model without finite time and/or granular control over collected data categories enabled data collectors to basically “ask once, use forever.” • Lack of data protection agency. • Burden of proof is high for data breach lawsuits. Personal Data Protection Act
a lot of public sector statistics and publications to public domain for general use. • Active demands from private sector and citizens pushed for more live APIs; e.g., Transport Data eXchange. • Data quality issue exists as agencies with lesser interest data try to meet internal open data goals by uploading raw spreadsheets or empty-shell document with single hyperlink pointing to their website. Challenges on Open Data
(GSN VPN) Connects data from agencies nationwide Labor Insurance NHI Enrollment Record Household Registration Built by Nat’l Dev. Council Agency Sandbox T-Road Mgmt Plat. Govt Data Transport Plat. Web Portal (Centralized listing) Svc. Lookup Impl. Flow Downloads Agency Citizen
ask for personal data directly from the government. • T-Road enables personal data sharing between different data-controlling agencies. • Neither of them addressed the fundamental issues in PDPA. • Weak audit mechanism may lead to accountability problems. MyData & T-Road
Integration Available NHI Card Driver License Interopable Info printed: Name, ID#, date of birth, marriage status, photo, renewal due Spouse, parent names, residential address are stored in chip, requires consent to read
in 2020. • Original plan to integrate with NHI card cancelled; optional integration with MOICA still available. • Civil outcry postponed the actual rollout. • Legal basis: None* • No legal means to stop private sectors from misusing ID number or e-ID itself. e-ID in Taiwan
government adoption → Minimal, only-once, accountable collection • Quality digital service builds on good government service → Infrastructure investment improves digital experience → Transparent, open data empowers citizens and domestic software industry alike Rolling on