Online Privacy Protection

The right to privacy accrues as the development of productivity and the recognition of human's dignity, right and value. Nowadays, as cyberspace and information technology soars, the right to privacy develops to a new form---internet privacy right. Internet privacy right is a personal right which means a person has the right to be alone online and his or her personal data should be protected by law, the personal data are prohibited to be illegally infringed, known, collected, copied, publicized or utilized by others online. The development of technology makes it much easier to infringe other's internet privacy right than ever before, which makes the internet privacy right faced a more serious threaten. Every country takes different measures to protect the internet privacy right according to their own practical environment, which can be used as reference to our country.There are four chapters in this paper:Chapter One: This chapter begins from the concept of the right to privacy followed by the concept of internet privacy right and its characteristics. As the developed form of the right to privacy, internet privacy is a succession and further development of the former, but Internet privacy has its own characteristics and contents.Chapter Two: This chapter analyzes the present legal environment of Internet privacy in China and the legislation experiences abroad, then comes to a conclusion that we have the need and possibility to make Internet law.Chapter Three: the problems faced by internet privacy right causes a common attention all over the world, each country takes relevant reaction to them. European Union and the US take different ways to protect the internet privacy right, namely legislative mode and self-regulation mode. The two different protection modes both have their own advantages and disadvantages, they have conflicts and sameness, which are meaningful to our country as a reference.Chapter Four: .this chapter analyzes the present legal conditions on the right to privacy and internet privacy right, and concludes the existing laws'limitation and deficiency. Then the author gives his own suggestions for legislation on protection of the internet privacy right, that is, we should: choose the appropriate protection mode according to China's factual environment and the international legislation experiences;define the Internet privacy and its contents; strengthen further protection to the internet privacy right to ensure that internet economy and internet privacy right can develop in different orbit healthily.