Taiwan: Data Protection

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau has opened an investigation into a video that allegedly used an AI-generated voice clone of President Lai Ching-te, testing how far existing forgery law can stretch to cover synthetic political speech. The case has split opinion along political lines and serves as a marker of how differently APAC jurisdictions are approaching deepfake regulation, with Taiwan applying decades-old forgery statutes to technology they were never written for.

On April 14, the Ministry of Justice explained the definition of "government agency" (source document in Chinese) described under the Personal Information Protection Act