A Philosophical Analysis On The Right To Privacy In The Internet

Technology is a double-edged sword. It brings convenience to human beings. At the same time, it bothers people with corner of ethic and morality and leads people to dispute of interests. Network technology brings us information age. It has greatly changed human beings' life. When we human beings are enjoying the convenience of Internet, our privacy is facing infringement. The crisis of privacy comes out with the development of Internet technology. So we need to have an overall understanding of Internet privacy, analyze its essence and explore the reasons of its infringement, then propose pertinent way to regulate the problems.Internet privacy is a right of personality to protect personal information, personal activity, and personal domain on the Internet. It is the extended protection of traditional privacy in the Internet and has its own particularity. With the value of personal information increasing, privacy becomes a good with treating value. Internet privacy has the attribute of property. No matter which content of Internet privacy, it emerges in the form of data not as the traditional entity. This form is convenient for the collection of privacy, the use of it and the spread of it. As a result, it weakens the ability of one's control of privacy. In order to provide effectual protection of Internet privacy, considering its particularity, some rights added, such as right to know, right to select, right to control.Firstly, the essence of Internet privacy shows the embedding of Internet to human existing. The network technology builds a new space to embed. It also embeds personal area of privacy, changing the way to think and behave. Secondly, to emphasize Internet privacy indicates the raising of subjectivity consciousness. People have a visual knowledge of privacy at spiritual and material aspects. And people need more freedom of action and discretionary power. This is the prominence of free will and independent personality. Thirdly, it also proves that people pursue core values and aims to realize liberty and respect dignity.There are some reasons for infringement to privacy. Such as the impelling of enormous commercial benefits, the infringement feasibility of technology and also the unfavorable of supervision. Together they make the condition of privacy more serious. So we should consider the characters and the idea of the Internet if we want to give some advice to regulate infringement to privacy. The first step is to construct ethic consciousness matched to the Internet. And the second one is to establish mechanisms of self-discipline. The last one is to perfect legislation. We hope the problems of privacy can be regulated according to above measures.