Research On Internet Privacy Protection Laws

The right of privacy took a fundamental personality right, always receives people's universal attention. However, in our country, the protection dynamics to the right of privacy cannot achieve by far people's request, some related legislations be also almighty insufficiency, and the existing related legislation about right of privacy can not satisfy social development in the nowadays need. Especially in recent years, Computer information network technology rapid development, has changed people's tradition life and the survival way, attacks and is affecting society's aspects, and causes people's right of privacy to face the new challenge. Then it has initiated a new question that is the infringement network right of privacy question. The network right of privacy is along with the network development and it is one kind of new right of privacy with the social life unceasing seepage by network. It is different from the traditional right of privacy. Because it exists in the cyberspace, therefore it has some new characteristic which the traditional right of privacy does not have, the right infringement way also has a lot of differences. Because of the complexity and anonymity of the network, people's network right of privacy is extremely easy to receive the invasion. Moreover, along with the network technology unceasing development and the rapid popularization, the infringement network right of privacy event emerged one after another incessantly, and resulted in the network right of privacy receiving enormous threat.Although the network right of privacy in cyberspace is essentially different from traditional right of privacy, it emerges some new characteristics due to the different backgrounds. The network right of privacy in cyberspace is a product of the traditional right of privacy which develops to a certain stage, and it is a kind of personal right about personal information, private activities and private space having no relationship with public interests.This article discusses the United States' protected mode which mainly due to industry self-regulation, and policy-supplemented by the legislation, and the European Union's protection system which regulate the Internet privacy mainly due to legislation, and analyze the characteristics of the two models and its shortcomings. China's privacy protection in the network has not yet established a complete legal system. So we should take the research on the field as soon as possible and study experience of foreign countries. We should set up a legal system of privacy protection in the network, which agrees with the situations of our country and conforms to the practice of international society. In the industry, and self-discipline, we should learn from foreign experience to establish and perfect industry self-regulation system. At the same time Internet users to enhance the awareness of self-protection and to provide them with more technical support.