News Invasion Of Privacy Types, Causes, And Legal Countermeasures

In modern society, with the development of human civilization, people have stronger self-recognization and more respectfully independent character. The right to privacy is now being accepted worldwide as one of independent civil rights-personal right. But in the other hand, it is not rare to see news invade the right of privacy as the extension of mass media. People's desire for tranquility of inner heart and living environment demands legal protection of the right to privacy. So seeking the scheme of how to avoid news invade right of privacy has already become a focal point and difficult problem, which the press of our country and law circles study at present.This paper first probed into several essential issues on privacy and the right of privacy, reviewed the actuality about the protection of privacy right both at home and abroad, developed a new method to divide news invasion of privacy right into three types: news invasion of government official's privacy right, news invasion of cultural figure's privacy right and news invasion of common citizen's privacy right. The author summaried the conflict between several related rights to analyze the concrete reason of news invasion of privacy. In the last section the author makes some thoughts on the adjustment the right of privacy protection with several related rights conflict. Then putting forwards the principle and method of adjusting conflict and balancing several related interests, with a view to offer some theories for building and completing our news protection system of privacy right.