Taiwan passed amendments to existing cryptocurrency regulations, empowering the Financial Supervisory Commission to demand cryptocurrency exchange operators implement changes that will crack down on anonymous transactions, BTC Manager reports. The Ministry of Justice said the changes to the anti-mon...

Privacy concerns have been raised over the growing use of surveillance technology in Taiwan, the South China Morning Post reports. A recent report by the Taiwan Association for Human Rights argues citizens’ digital human rights have been violated for years as the government quietly conducts communic...

The EU Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive is on its way to a full plenary vote in Parliament after being approved by its internal market and consumer protection committee. EU data protection authorities are expected to meet next month to iron out a new data-transfer agreement with the ...

As discussed in previous articles, many Asia-Pacific countries have implemented privacy statutes. While each has its own unique provisions, they tend to utilize the same core principles as the APEC Privacy Framework (2005). Corporations that operate in the region must comply with the statutes for ea...

Corporations that operate in and collect or process personal data in Asia-Pacific countries need to have comprehensive privacy policies addressing these countries’ data privacy laws. Is it possible to create a single policy that achieves such a broad coverage? The answer is yes, but Asia, unlike Eu...