Legal Protection Of Privacy

In our country's current legal system, the right to privacy is not enforced and protected as an independent civil right. The privacy of consumers'privacy has not got enough attention and concern. Along with the fast development of our country's economy, the number of the invasion of consumers'privacy cases is increasing. More and more consumers hope to protect their legitimate rights and interests by law. With the spread of internet, electronic commerce became a new mode of consuming behavior. In electronic commerce the legal protection of the right to consumers'privacy suggests new features. How to protect the right to consumers'privacy becomes a more and more important practical question. This paper makes an in-depth research from the perspective of how to protect consumers and proposes some new ideas about how to protect consumers'privacy.There are five chapters in this paper.The first chapter is the summary of the right to privacy. The privacy and the right to privacy are defined. Then the new features of the right to privacy, such as the enlargement of the scope of privacy, the method of invasion of privacy using high technology, the increase of difficulty about the protection of privacy, etc, are analysis.The summary of the right to the consumers'privacy is in chapter two. Firstly the meaning and main content of consumers'privacy is mention. Then the features of consumers'privacy in electronic commerce are summarized. In the last part the necessity of protecting consumers'privacy is provided.The content of chapter three is status of the protection of consumers'privacy. Firstly some typical cases are given to show the main manifestations of the invasion of consumers'privacy. Then the characteristics of the invasion of consumers'privacy in internet era are concluded.Chapter four is the overview of the status of protection of consumers'privacy in other countries and regions. Legislative situations of the legal protection of the right to the privacy in USA, Europe Union, Britain, German, Japan, Russia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, are highlighted. Then the difference among them are compared and analyzed. Firstly the three methods (direct protection, indirect protection and general protection) of conventional protection of privacy are mentioned. Then the two modes (constructive industry guide and network authentication plan) of how to protect privacy in network era are summarized. Lastly the protection of privacy should be done in the regions of public law and private law.The assumption of protective system for consumers'privacy is proposed in chapter 5. This is the most important part of this paper. The construction of legal system for consumers'privacy in our country is designed. Through the analysis of our country's legislation actuality and existing problems, author proposes that government should protect the consumers'privacy in a direct way. The comprehensive protection mode should mainly on the legislative protection mode while industry self-discipline mode and self-protection mode subsidiary.