Legal Protection Of The Citizen’s Right To Know Under Network Environment

Internet is one of the greatest inventions of the20th century, which spreads across theglobe as public facility. In the current network environment, information transmit have brokenthrough the limitation of time and region, hence, the realization of the citizen’s right to knowhas become diversified. The various forms of internet application, such as e-government,information disclosure, and internet mass hunting, make the practice of the right to know moretimely and efficiently, also demonstrate social participation fully. Meanwhile, thecharacteristics of network are including of fictitiousness and publicity, that those characteristicshave initiated so many serious problems. The conflict between the right to know and the rightto privacy, even the right to secrecy becomes more and more obvious. It has become arelatively new topic in the study that how to take precautions against the unfavorable factorsunder network environment, instead of the violations of public right to know. So the legislationon the protection right to know under network environment has been put on agenda. It not onlymeets the needs of era development that the right to know under network environment is theemphasis confirmed and regulated by laws, but also embodies the cooperatively works andmutual promotion among the monocracy civilization in scientific and technological progress.Moreover, The final objective of protect the right to know is to let all its abundant fruits oftechnological progress could be rejoiced in by crowds, so that the right subjects can be guidedand helped with internet information access. While it guarantees the right subjects fullyexercising the right to know under network environment, and the better realization of the rightto know.By analysis on the right to know, and discuss about the realization of the right to knowunder network environment, with reference to the legislative experience of other countries,constructing the right to know and the relative system according to our country’s conditions,which will remove obstacles for the impact of network environment on traditional legal system.That enables the network run as the guarantee of the right to know.