Lawyers hail court ruling that Taiwan’s digital ID scheme needs special laws

Taiwan’s government must go back to the drawing board to address the weaknesses in its digital identity scheme highlighted by a court ruling against it earlier this year, say a team of lawyers.

Implementing a planned digital ID scheme in Taiwan without citizen consensus and the enactment of special data protection laws could give room for human rights violations and data breaches, a Taiwanese court ruled in May.

The ruling has received approbation from three counsels who represented a group …

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