Privacy Protection In High School Student Archives Management

In modern society, advancing technology and strengthening right consciousness among citizens has not only made privacy a public focus but also added to its connotation. It was originally highlighted by celebrities, soon entered the sight of common people or high school students, and has permeated every aspect of life. However, privacy does not have a long history. It was Privacy, an article of Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren published in Harvard Law Review in 1890, that established the theoretical and practical basis of privacy. In the following century, national legal research and practices greatly enriched this conception so that it finally evolved to the modern sense of privacy. Meanwhile, privacy is recognized by national laws and cases, becoming an organic part of national law systems. The privacy protection of high school students, which is a significant group in society, has drawn public attention. This article largely involves the very issue. It elaborates on the protection of privacy in managing high school student archives in three aspects as below:The first part introduces the status quo and necessity of privacy protection in high school student archives management. On one hand, it begins with the present situation of high school student archives management as well as privacy protection, looks closely at the characteristics and current status of student archives management and the privacy of students, and demonstrates the flow of above-said management taking SWUPL as an example. On the other hand, it deals with the necessity of privacy protection in high school student archives management, and analyzes the conflict between such management and the privacy of students, together with the privacy interests embedded in the latter.The second part is established with existing lefal framework and discusses some practical problems in the privacy protection in high school student archives management. It sees into the privacy protection therein from different perspectives as defects in the shield provided by existing laws about archives and the civil law, and the vulnerability of privacy, etc.The last part brings forward advices to improve privacy policies on high school student archives management, based on the present situation and problems thereof.So far a universal and specific definition of privacy has not been established internationally. For historical and practical reasons, privacy is not yet sufficiently appreciated and protected in China. In recent years, privacy begins to gain in significance in public attention.Relevant laws and cases are gradually adopted. Provisions involving privacy protection then directly or indirectly emerge in the Constitution, the Criminal Law, and General Principles of Civil Law of China. Moreover, the recently enacted Tort Law of PRC provided independent privacy protection.