By Wu Chia-ying, Wu Po-hsuan and Rachel Lin / Staff reportersStudent associations can use university rosters for the purposes of holding student elections, the National Development Council said on Tuesday, after the National Taiwan University (NTU) Student Association reported that the university had denied its request for the list. Universities should provide guidance to student associations and other organizations in their exercise of student self-government, an anonymous council official said, citing Article 33 of the University Act (大學法). However, use of personal data should still abide by the principle of proportionality described in Article 5 of the Personal Data Protection Act, the official said. Although the council believes providing the association with a student roster would not involve the Personal Data Protection Act, it also mentioned that the use of personal data should adhere to the principle of proportionality, NTU said. The ministry is to ask NTU to provide its student association with a roster and to take measures to protect the data, it added.
