The election meeting revealed that the personal information of candidates for county and city chiefs and parliamentarians was leaked, and the announcement website service had a vulnerability. The website has now been reopened for inquiry after maintenance staff checked and the program was corrected. However, the draft of the "Organization Act of the Personal Information Association" related to the protection of personal information has been lying in the Legislative Yuan for a year and a half since it was passed by the Executive Yuan in March last year. In response, the People's Party stated that the party group supports the promotion of the Personal Information Association to a "secondary agency" and called on Legislative Yuan Hanguo-yu to convene consultations as soon as possible to strengthen independent supervision.
The third force political party alliance "Taiwan Forward Front" held a press conference this morning (28th) and pointed out that on the 16th, the Central Election Commission reviewed and approved the qualifications of candidates for county and city chiefs and legislators, and disclosed the candidates' property declaration information. Unexpectedly, when the information was released, the ID card numbers of 1,573 candidates were also leaked, including the personal information of Taipei mayor candidates Shen Boyang, Jiang Wanan and others. It criticized the government's negative attitude and demanded that the Central Election Commission be fully held accountable and publish a review report.
In this regard, the Selection Committee responded this afternoon that the initial reason was that the outsourced manufacturer loaded the ID card number into a non-public search file when announcing the production information. The file was presented in garbled code and could not be read by ordinary people and could not be queried on any page. The announcement website service was checked by maintenance personnel yesterday (27th) and the program was corrected. The possibility of data outflow was blocked, and the inquiry was reopened at 7 o'clock last night, and the competent authority was notified at the same time. Follow-up investigations will be carried out in accordance with the Personal Information Act to clarify the outsourced manufacturer's negligence and responsibility.
In view of the increasingly rampant personal data leakage and the Constitutional Court's 2011 Constitutional Court Judgment No. 13 requiring that the "Personal Data Protection Commission" should be established before August 11 last year, the Executive Yuan passed the draft of the "Organization Act of the Personal Data Protection Commission" and the "Personal Data Protection Commission Organization Act" at the end of March last year. However, after the joint meeting of the Legislative Yuan's Judicial, Legal, and Economic Committees initially reviewed the case at the end of May, due to no consensus on key provisions such as the number of members of the Personal Information Commission, the recruitment of professionals, and the upper limit of their number, the entire case was reserved for negotiation among the party groups.
In this regard, Chen Zhaozi, deputy chief convener of the Legislative Yuan of the People's Party and legislator, said that in the past few days, not only the personal information of more than a thousand candidates has been leaked from the election committee website, but also the official website of the People's Party has been repeatedly attacked by hackers, and the people behind the scenes have also attempted to seize the management rights of the entire website. Party Chairman Huang Guochang also went to the Criminal Bureau this morning to report the case, emphasizing that such targeted, systematic, and sustained attacks should be treated seriously.
The People's Party pointed out that they support the Personal Information Protection Committee proposed to be established by the Executive Yuan to be upgraded to a "secondary agency" to establish an independent supervision mechanism and cultivate professional talents. However, the agency is still in trouble, and its preparatory work has still burned more than NT$150 million in budgets year after year. The personal information legal system has not yet been completed, and the "public and private sectors" originally planned to be coordinated by the Personal Information Council The protection blueprints such as "Supervision Unification", "Segmented Transition Mechanism" and "Common Management Measures" have become empty talk, resulting in "digital ID cards" being stuck together. The Ministry of the Interior even spends nearly 50 million more to maintain and operate equipment every year. I call on President Han to convene a party group for consultation as soon as possible. The government and the opposition should also face up to the urgency of establishing a personal information protection committee.
