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Governance and Challenges of Intellectual Property Compliance in the Age of AI
Dear directors and executives, good afternoon. I am delighted to be invited by the Taiwan Directors Association to share legal issues related to AI with you at Chia Hsin Cement Corporation. Today's topic is "Governance and Challenges of Intellectual Property Compliance in the AI-Driven Era." With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, corporate boards are facing unprecedented governance challenges, and the role of boards is also transforming. We will explore this from four perspectives: First, what governance challenges AI technology development brings to boards and how board roles are changing. Second, the importance of intellectual property rights in the AI era and risk management. Third, how to leverage generative AI to enhance intellectual property governance effectiveness. Finally, the responsibilities and practical directions boards should undertake in the AI era across four dimensions: governance, transparency, digital, and innovation. I hope through these insights to help you prepare comprehensively in corporate compliance and governance. I. Governance Challenges and Board Role⋯
Understanding Corporate Data Governance – A Legal Perspective
Data Governance is a collection of activities (planning, monitoring, and executing) that exercise authority and control over data asset management. The data governance function guides how other data management functions should be executed. Under this definition, corporate data governance refers to an organization's management and control of data during its operations to ensure data quality, availability, security, and regulatory compliance. The purpose of corporate data governance is to enable companies to effectively manage their data resources, enhance decision-making processes, and improve business operational efficiency. From a legal perspective, it concerns how data from front-end collection to back-end utilization or sharing can serve the company while avoiding illegal data collection, processing, and utilization, as well as how to avoid misuse, misjudgment, leakage, or other regulatory compliance risks. "Data is the oil of the 21st century," but data and oil differ substantially in nature. First, oil is a finite natural resource that inevitably diminishes with extraction; data, however, becomes increasingly easier to⋯
A Discussion on Corporate Data Governance Prompted by iRent’s Excessive Personal Data Collection and Usage Incident
On January 7, 2025, the Consumers' Foundation held a press conference pointing out that iRent (Hotai Motor Co., Ltd.'s car rental division) collected excessive personal data in its rental terms and required consumers to agree to share personal data with affiliated companies, potentially violating the Personal Data Protection Act. The competent authority for car rental services, the Directorate General of Highways, dispatched personnel from the Taipei City Motor Vehicles Office to conduct an administrative inspection. They determined that the reasonableness and necessity of these terms were not clear and required iRent to improve. Hotai Motor Company also shut down the joint marketing data system function within the group. This is actually an unreasonable expectation that many large enterprises in the past have had—hoping to collect data once and apply it to all "affiliated companies." Without an appropriate corporate data governance framework, common situations violating the Personal Data Protection Act emerge from service planning to data management architecture. Let's first look⋯