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Forced consent, OUT: At RightsCon joining forces with digital human rights workers from around the world

Must consumers passively accept privacy policies/terms that permit businesses to share and use their personal information? Is all that patients can do just tolerate their medical and social welfare information being used for research by third parties without individual consent; besides withdrawing after the fact, is there no better way to ensure the right of consent? The International Digital Human Rights Conference RightsCon was held in Taiwan this year and TAHR was selected to organize a roundtable discussion. Together with digital human rights citizen groups and experts from around the world, we collectively identify patterns of behavior that qualify as…

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Input for the Independent Expert’s report on AI and international solidarity to be presented to the 3rd Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024

Input for the Independent Expert’s report on AI and international solidarity to be presented to the 3rd Committee of the UN General Assembly in October 2024 submission prepared by Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) TAHR Founded in 1984, Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR) is one of the most important and oldest human rights NGOs in Taiwan. TAHR has participated in many important democratic and human rights movements in Taiwan. Website: Contacts: info@tahr.org.tw, kuan@tahr.org.tw 2. Do you have access to procedures to communicate solidarity issues directly to AI Companies or State Institutions? What kind of procedure do you…

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Location-Tracking Data Is Privacy. Telecommunication Information Usage Requirements Need Further Scrutiny.

I-Chuan Wang, the Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Policy Research and Coordinating Committee, stated in a political talk show that it is possible to compare crowd attributes between protestors against the abuse of legislative power and participants of the May-19th gathering in front of the DPP headquarters as well as the campaign before the recent Presidential election. Regardless of how such comparisons were carried out in practice, the analysis of location-tracking data mentioned in Wang’s statement has already fallen under the scope of “another purpose of collection” as laid out in the Personal Data Protection Act…

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Constitutional Court Rules on National Health Insurance Case – A Win for Opt-Out Right amidst an Overall Unfounded Judgment on Personal Data Protection Act

In Taiwan, individuals covered by mandatory national health insurance have been concurrently deprived of their data autonomy. Misinterpreting the Personal Data Protection Act (hereinafter PDPA), the government neither seeks affirmative consent nor answers any opt-out request from the data subjects when handing their sensitive health information to third parties for secondary use

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Behind Normalcy: Taiwan’s fervent COVID-19 response raise critical privacy and due process concerns

Behind Normalcy: Taiwan’s fervent COVID-19 response raise critical privacy and due process concerns   Author | Elisa Chang Editor | Xin-yi Liao “Relatively normal” might have been how most Taiwanese described their 2021 New Year celebration. After being mostly untouched by the COVID-19 pandemic in its first year, residents in the country continued to enjoy daily activities that were considered a luxury by many – shopping, dining indoors, even going to concerts. Behind the normalcy, however, has been an ongoing series of debate around the country’s disease control endeavors and the rights to privacy. During the 2021 New Year long…

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[Policy Statement] The Legislative Yuan should stay within its authority, amend the implementation date of the Comprehensive National Identity Card Replacement Method, and restart the discussions

[Policy Statement] The Legislative Yuan should stay within its authority, amend the implementation date of the Comprehensive National Identity Card Replacement Method, and restart the discussions The “Comprehensive National Identity Card Renewal Method” (hereinafter referred to as the “Renewal Method”) was sent to the Legislative Yuan’s council today and has been proposed by all opposite parties to be submitted to the Internal Affairs Committee for review. The Taiwan Association for Human Rights calls for the Legislative Yuan to take the duty provided by Articles 60 to 62 of the Act of Execution of Legislative Yuan’s Functions and Power in the…

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[Statement from the Taiwan Association of Human Rights] Statement to respond the the Ministry of the Interior on April 23 regarding the digital ID

[Statement from the Taiwan Association of Human Rights] Statement to respond the the Ministry of the Interior on April 23 regarding the digital ID Since several civil rights group has initiated a petition and statement about “opposing the full renewal of chip identity cards” policy made by the Ministry of Interior (MOI). On April 23, MOI claimed that civil rights groups might misunderstand their policy. Taiwan Association for Human Rights reply again as the followingresponse:   TAHR raise the petition of “Opposing the Full Renewal of Chip Identity Cards“, and proposes that “1. Chipless ID cards should be retained”, “2.…

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Five Questions of Doubt of the Digital ID (eID)

The 2019 coronavirus epidemic has hit the global economy. As of now, the tourism industry, aviation industry, financial industry, and service industry have all been greatly threatened. In this environment, the only industry that remains untouched are the e-commerce and delivery industry, which illustrates the importance of the digital age to humanity. However, were you aware? During the period of the preventative measures of the epidemic, the government also silently advanced other policy agendas in science and technology, such as inserting the “The Regulation of Comprehensive Renewal of National Identity Card”. #1 Question of Doubt: The Regulation was only announced…

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[Statement from the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)] A Country Under the Rule of Law Encounters a Virus: Don’t Abuse Power, Epidemic Prevention and Democracy Can Coexist

[Statement from the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR)] A Country Under the Rule of Law Encounters a Virus: Don’t Abuse Power, Epidemic Prevention and Democracy Can Coexist On March 16, many counties, city governments, and the Executive Yuan issued numerous travel bans, prohibiting teachers and students below high school from traveling abroad. On the same day, the Central Epidemic Command Center also decided that nationals who have “unnecessary” travels to third level alert countries, will not only not receive compensation after returning, but also the necessary fees during the quarantined time. Yesterday on the 17th, the epidemic command center…