the Protection of Victim’s Rights

No. Action Competent Authority Timetable Key Performance Indicator

145 Organize online safety awareness activities at schools with view to improving children’s internet literacy, and cultivating greater understanding of self-protection online.

146 Organize training courses on internet governance to cultivate a diverse range of talents to grasp at latest issues of the development of internet governance such as digital human rights.

National Communications Commission 2020-2024 Organize at least 25 activities a year.

National Communications Commission 2020-2024 Organize at least six hours of professional training courses each year.

(III) Prevent the Use of Digital Technology to Perpetual Digital/Online Gender-Based Violence and Strengthen Protection of Victim’s Rights

With the rapid technological developments, online information technology and artificial intelligence are widely used, bringing convenience and innovation to human lives, but also resulting in criminal issues, such as crimes related to private sex tapes. Through the far-reaching internet where information spreads fast and users have high anonymity, technologies that blur the lines of the virtual and reality (e.g., Deepfake) led to the distribution of sexual images without consent or even the creation of sexual content without consent through computer-generated images, causing deeper and wider harm to the victim’s right to privacy. To tackle these issues, draft amendments to the Criminal Code and the Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act are being prepared that will give victims of this type of crimes the same protection service measures of victims of sexual assault (including confidentiality of victims’ identity, protected criminal judicial procedures, and protection and assistance). These amendments also include provisions on the detection, deletion, and removal of offending images to combat and deter such crimes and protect the human rights of everyone in Taiwan.