Research On Privacy Protection In The Digital Age

The right to privacy is an important right to protect the private life of citizens and the inviolability of personal and private information.It is an important human right.The connotation and extension of privacy rights are also constantly updated with the development of the times.Along with the development of human society into the digital age,a large number of digital information technologies have emerged.Digital information technology is characterized by fast information transmission,large amount of information storage,and long storage time.Based on the above characteristics,digital information technology poses a natural threat to citizens' privacy rights.The violation of privacy in the digital age is mainly manifested in three types: obtaining private secrets through digital technology,spreading the privacy of others through digital technology,and interfering with the peace of life of others through digital technology;most privacy infringements cover one or more of the above types of infringement.item.In order to cope with the threat of privacy caused by evolving digital technology and how to deal with privacy infringement disputes in the digital age according to law,many privacy protection mechanisms in the digital age have been formed worldwide.Among them,the United Nations privacy protection mechanism is aimed at safeguarding human rights and safeguarding human dignity,with government public power as the main limiting object,and establishing relevant guidelines for the protection of privacy rights in different industries such as networks and communications.The EU privacy protection mechanism realizes the protection of the privacy rights of the citizens of the member states by creating a large number of legal documents protecting personal data and private information;the privacy protection mechanism of the United States is divided into three levels: the Constitution,the Privacy Special Act,and the industry self-regulation rules.In the Asian countries,the privacy protection mechanism in Japan is relatively perfect,and a number of special privacy laws have been enacted,while the scope of privacy protection has been extended to the level of personal data privacy,so that the privacy of citizens is fully guaranteed.While the developed countries in foreign countries constantly improve their privacy protection mechanism,China's privacy protection mechanism in the digital age alsoneeds to be improved: we should take the perfection of privacy theory as the premise,specify the right of privacy in legislation,and reconstruct our privacy protection mechanism on this basis.