The Declaration of Taipei was first adopted a 53rd WMA General Assembly, Washington, DC, USA, October 2002.
Research has been evolving since the Declaration of Helsinki was adopted in 1964. Large collections of data and human specimens allow for the development of new research strategies, modelling and predictive analysis in the age of technology.
To balance the very powerful tool for increasing knowledge with the dangers of abuse and misuse of such data from commercial, administrative or political areas the Declaration of Taipei was born in 2002 and updated in 2016.