Global CBPR Forum hosted in Taipei

2024/11/25

The Cabinet-level National Development Council and the Taipei-based Institute for Information Industry organized the fall workshop of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum Nov. 19-21, highlighting the country’s commitment to enhancing the implementation of regulations internationally.

Since the inception of the forum in 2022, Taiwan has worked with other founding members Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the U.S. to promote the CBPR system. Around 150 participants from more than 25 countries attended the fall meeting in Taipei City, the NDC said, comprising government officials, privacy experts and representatives from multinational corporations.

Discussions at the autumn conference focused on the development and evolution of CBPR mechanisms to facilitate the free flow of trusted data. The NDC said that this echoed President Lai Ching-te’s national developmental policies, into which the principle, called DFFT, is incorporated. The council added that it will continue to coordinate with relevant domestic agencies and collaborate with like-minded partners to advance the execution of international privacy rules.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, acting Director General Wu Shin-ling of the NDC’s Department of Regulatory Reform expressed hope that through constant dialogues, unnecessary legal barriers could be removed to optimize the environment for a global digital economy.

Thirteen sessions took place Nov. 19-20, covering topics ranging from an introduction to the reform of global CBPR certification standards to the application and development of privacy-enhancing technologies, the NDC said, adding that the Nov. 21 Global Forum Assembly was open only to members.


Source:  Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)