《Abstract》 With the paparazzi are becoming a routine journalistic practice, media violating individual privacy has grown into an important issue in Taiwan both for the public and the academia. This article divides three periods to study the historical change of the privacy law enforcement in Taiwan: Martial Law Period (before 1945), Post-Martial Law to the publishing of NEXT media magazine (1945 - 2001), and after the publication of NEXT media magazine (2001-now). This study reviews historical cases about media were accused of violating the individual privacy right in those three periods, for an analysis of the development of Taiwan’s Privacy Law. Applying case study to explore and compare the differences on the cases of media violating privacy law between Taiwan and the U.S.. The finding indicates that in Taiwan both the types and numbers of media violating individual privacy cases has increased gradually, however , media have the advantage in trials. Yet, the comparison shows that public celebrities, the general expectation of individual privacy, and social moral standards would affect the results of the trials. This study recommends that the privacy law in Taiwan should become a statute law for its fully enforcement.