GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

GDPR is the EU's most comprehensive data protection law, designed to give individuals greater control over their personal data. According to Article 4, 'personal data' is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Article 5 establishes seven key principles for processing personal data: lawfulness, fairness and transparency; purpose limitation; data minimization; accuracy; storage limitation; integrity and confidentiality; and accountability.

GDPR has an 'extraterritorial scope'. Under Article 3, any company, regardless of its location, must comply if it offers goods or services to, or monitors the online behavior (e.g., via cookies) of, individuals within the EU. Violators face severe fines of up to €20 million or 4% of their global annual turnover, whichever is higher, posing a significant risk to Taiwan's export-oriented companies with global supply chains.

GDPR is directly related to the Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) standard, ISO/IEC 27701. As a privacy extension to the ISO/IEC 27001 information security standard, ISO 27701 provides a management framework to comply with GDPR requirements. Its annexes provide a detailed mapping between the standard's controls and GDPR articles, such as data subject rights and privacy impact assessments, serving as a practical guide for implementation.

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