On Legal Protection Of Students' Privacy Right In University

With the rapid development of china's democracy and legal system, our society are transforming from the period of "power" to the period of "right". The sense of individual right is promoted generally, more and more people including students treat the rights seriously, and struggle for rights. The privacy right has drawn more and more attention. Compared to the general privacy right, the privacy of college students has distinctive features: the brittleness of right; the narrow object of right; the strict limit to privacy right of college students. In current higher education management system, "public right" of college expanse obviously, and college student are more vulnerable to privacy infringement. The first sue of protecting the privacy right of college students occurred in Oct 1999(six students of a college in Hunan province sued their school violating their privacy right). Since then related sues spring up. This indicates that the privacy right of college students is encountering infringement to varying degrees, and they can't get access to just degrees. This problem has become a hidden danger to social stability. How to supply privacy legal protection to college students has been a real subject waiting for studying deeply.The article not only uses jurisprudence, administrative law, administrative litigation law, civil law, education management theories but also adopts historical investigation, case analysis and empirical analysis through discussing the concept, connotation, characteristics, the status quo of college students' privacy right, the necessity for protection, and how to improve the privacy of university students to the legal protection issues, in order to create reasonable mechanisms that consistent with the spirit of the rule by law to protect students privacy right, straighten out the rights and obligations relations between universities and students, then set up a truly harmonious campus.