The Legal Protection Of Individual Privacy On Internet

With the development of ages, privacy has become a basic right of people. However, China, ranking in the second of Internet users, has not enacted privacy-related laws. The protection of privacy is equal to the protection of reputation in practice of our law, which is not beneficial to privacy protection. So the legislation of privacy is not perfect in our country, which needs promoted.For recent years, with the development of Internet space, privacy protection has been facing unprecedented challenge. On one hand, the scope of privacy has reached Internet and take the form of data. Because of economic value of personal data on Internet, the invasion of Internet has become the focus of people. Once personal privacy is disclosed on Internet, the result will be unbelievable because of the transferring speed caused by Internet technique. How to protect individual privacy on Internet is on the point. However, the legal supervision is not sufficient when facing the serious privacy-invasion. So it is necessary to build a legal system on Internet.