Criminal Law's Protection For Personal Information

With the development of society and wide application of information technology, people are enjoying getting information with abundant channel, convenience and efficiency. At the same time, they have to face serious threat of unauthorized disclosure of personal information. It greatly reduces the security of personal survival. In fact, there are many things about unauthorized disclosure of personal information which leads to violated privacy, damaged reputation and even the suffering of spirit. The public personal information, such as home address, phone number, etc., often becomes the "open secret". Almost all have experienced their own mailbox filled with written details of name, address, and advertising mail. Their e-mails are often blocked with spam; and their phones often receive various of spam messages. The parties have no idea when and where their personal information was leaked. These unsolicited advertisements and telephones disrupt our peaceful life which made us helpless.The legal system should respond to social needs in time. In order to protect personal information and citizens'private life not being disturbed, on February 28th 2009, People's Republic of the Eleventh National People's Congress adopted the seventh meeting of the "Republic of China Criminal Law Amendment (seven) "the protection of personal information into the criminal law protection in the past.This article is divided into five parts:The writer discusses about the basic questions of personal information in the first chapter, including the concept and characteristic of personal information, the main style and the harmfulness of the suffering of it. In order to declare violating personal information guilty, we must first make clear what are the personal information and the feature of personal information. Only by this way will we make people know the importance of involving the violation of personal information into criminal law, meantime,only when people know the source of harm will we know how to deal with it simply. The writer discusses about the civil protection of personal information into the criminal law in America, Europe and Japan,Korea and Taiwan districts in the second chapter; The author discusses about the selling and illegal providing the citizen individual information crime and the crime of illegal access to personal information of citizens, and obtaining the constitutes of citizens'personal information which is in our...