Tsui-fang Wu is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a senior Public Prosecutor of Taichung Branch, Taiwan High Prosecutors Office, Taiwan Ministry of Justice.
She got her Master of Law degree in public administrative law at National Taipei University’s law school (formerly known as National Chung Hsing University law school) and conducted 22 years of investigation and the prosecution of various criminal cases, as well as the supervision and the execution of the penalties in criminal cases as a Public Prosecutor (either Public Prosecutor, Head Prosecutor of District Prosecutors Office and senior Public Prosecutor of Taiwan High Prosecutors Office). She was awarded various medals by the Executive Yuan (the cabinet of the R.O.C. Taiwan) for her competence in dealing with intellectual property rights infringements and other important cases. Moreover, she was complimented for two essays on criminal procedure law: “The Admission As An Evidence of Audio-record, Photo, Video-tape, Film, other recorded data”, and “The Effectiveness of Putting Criminal Responsibility and Penalty Sanction to Corporation, Independent Organization- Base on The Observation of Some Administrative Laws”.
Due to her rich experiences and excellent performance as a prosecutor, she was appointed Chief of the Academic Department and later Chief Staff (Deputy Director) to design the intern Judges & Prosecutors’ training programs and to assist administration for three and a half years at the Academy for the Judiciary (before June 2013, formerly named: Judges & Prosecutors Training Institute), Taiwan Ministry of Justice.
Owing to her supervising experience on the usage of governmental data base, she is interested in not only how to keep the balance of privacy protection and people’s right to knowledge in the Internet management of civil servants’, the judge’s and prosecutor’s working system, but also how the personal information in governmental data base should be collected, processed or used.