Abstract
Abstract The prevalence of internet and advanced telecommunication technology has cause a serious problem on personal data protection. In Taiwan, the problem of unwanted disclosure of personal data has caused a great social cost and drew the attention of all citizens recently. In Europe, the problem has been earlier noticed and certain laws and regulations have been established. The European Data Protection Directive is known as one of the most advanced regulations on the personal data protection all over the world. However, after ten years of enforcement, they still found a great insufficiency on the work of protecting personal data. In the assessment report published by the European Commission, it is indicated that the law itself indeed has an adequate level of norm, but the problems on the execution, on contrary, is the major factor caused the insufficiency. Concerning the importance of the personal data protection in modern society, this research would like to evaluate the personal data protection system in EU and take UK as and example on the implementation of EU Directive. We will mainly focus on the aspects of execution and supervision, and hope to find out better solutions on completing the personal data protection system. In order to obtain the latest information and practically observe the execution of Data Protection work, a great part of this research is done in Queen Mary, University of London, and the research program is supported by Ministry of Education of Taiwan. Here an explanation must be made. Due to the acquirement of EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC & UK Data Protection Act 1998 is relatively difficult in Taiwan, these two bills are enclosed in the appendix for readers’ convenience.