Protection Of The Privacy Of Criminal Witness

With the awakening and enhancement of the consciousness of human rights, the privacy is becoming the hot issue of the society gradually. However in the present discussion, more scholars have only paid attention to the domain of the private law, but neglected the violation of the nation power to the personal privacy. Assisted by the ever-changing technical means, the overwhelming nation power has been invading the most secret private life and information. The citizen's right of privacy is in face of new threat and challenge. Based on the basic legal theory of the privacy , compared each other's legislations between the Anglo-American law system and the continental law system, the article has figured out the defects of the legislation and judicial practice. The conflicts between criminal justice and privacy have been expounded emphatically. Aiming at the infirm station of witness, the article has analyzed the weakness of the privacy of witness and Tries to establish the system of witness protection on the foundation of expounding the rationality and necessity of protecting the privacy of witness.