Framework overlap

Does Taiwan PDPA cover GDPR?

You hold Taiwan PDPA and have been told to do GDPR. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

89% of GDPR you already have

Taiwan PDPA already covers about 89% of GDPR, leaving 3 of 27 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 7 Likely covered 17 New work 3

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in Taiwan PDPA reaches these. This is the list to scope.

GDPR-Art.26
Joint controllers
GDPR-Art.27
Representatives of controllers or processors not established in the Union
GDPR-Art.29
Processing under the authority of the controller or processor
Show the 24 you already have
GDPR-Art.10
Processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions
GDPR-Art.11
Processing which does not require identification
GDPR-Art.25
Data protection by design and by default
GDPR-Art.35
Data protection impact assessment
GDPR-Art.38
Position of the data protection officer
GDPR-Art.45
Transfers on the basis of an adequacy decision
GDPR-Art.9
Processing of special categories of personal data
GDPR-Art.24
Responsibility of the controller
GDPR-Art.28
Processor
GDPR-Art.30
Records of processing activities
GDPR-Art.32
Security of processing
GDPR-Art.33
Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority
GDPR-Art.34
Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject
GDPR-Art.36
Prior consultation
GDPR-Art.37
Designation of the data protection officer
GDPR-Art.39
Tasks of the data protection officer
GDPR-Art.44
General principle for transfers
GDPR-Art.46
Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards
GDPR-Art.47
Binding corporate rules
GDPR-Art.49
Derogations for specific situations
GDPR-Art.5
Principles relating to processing of personal data
GDPR-Art.6
Lawfulness of processing
GDPR-Art.7
Conditions for consent
GDPR-Art.8
Conditions applicable to child's consent

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in Taiwan PDPA to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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