Gov't Asked for Personal Information 70K Times in 2015-16|政府看網路個資 2年調閱7萬筆
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According to an open online report published by the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the government had asked internet service providers for personal information of individuals 70,000 times in 2015 and 2016. Many of the requests originated with the police or prosecutors.
Many people spend hours online and on social media every day. According to an open report published by the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, the Taiwanese government requested personal information from internet service providers 65,884 times in 2015 and 2016. Most of the requests came from the police or prosecutors.
There exists a wide-open back door that can be indirectly used to collect information. The person whose information is being collected doesn't have to be informed. This is a black hole and we don't know what the consequences are.
Legal expert Chiou Wen-tsong says the government should be transparent about its collection of personal information and proactively provide relevant statistics. Twenty prosecutorial and police agencies were surveyed by the association and few responded. The Criminal Investigation Bureau says it only has relevant statistics for Facebook.
This is a very new issue. We don't really know what kind of supplementary measures we need. It seems like the surveillance ratio is very high in the past two decades, but the ratio was actually four to six years higher then than now.
Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker Yu Mei-nu adds that judicial agencies ask prosecutors for personal information over 20,000 times a year. Prosecutors approve 96 percent of the requests, compared to just 68 percent by courts. Yu says prosecutors need to be investigated for abuse of power.
Democratic Progressive Party lawmaker Yu Mei-nu adds that judicial agencies ask prosecutors for personal information over 20,000 times a year. Prosecutors approve 96 percent of the requests, compared to just 68 percent by courts. Yu says prosecutors need to be investigated for abuse of power.
You really don't know if someone is logging your every online move and collecting personal information about you to use against you.
Domestic companies comply with government requests for information 100 percent of the time, compared to less than 70 percent for multinational companies. The association says an independent watchdog agency needs to be established to make internet surveillance more transparent.
