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A set of Draft Amendments to the Foreign Trade Act aiming to augment sanction on fraudulent origin labeling, or what local media coined as "origin laundering," was approved by the Executive Yuan on May 16, 2019.

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau has opened an investigation into a video that allegedly used an AI-generated voice clone of President Lai Ching-te, testing how far existing forgery law can stretch to cover synthetic political speech. The case has split opinion along political lines and serves as a marker of how differently APAC jurisdictions are approaching deepfake regulation, with Taiwan applying decades-old forgery statutes to technology they were never written for.