Legal Restriction And Protection To The Privacy Of Public Figures

Privacy is an important and specific personality rights to citizens of manycountries in modern society. Many countries such as The United States are giving thestrict privacy protection to their citizens.In our country,"tort liability law" incorporatethe right of privacy into the legal category of protection.But,the legal protection ofprivacy system has not been formed, legislation is not perfect, not clear. Most of theprivacy is protected through the right of reputation and personality, thus, it is reallydifficult to maximum protect people’s right of privacy.As a natural person, the public figure must also have the right of privacy.However, the public figures is a special group in our society.Inevitably,pravicy ofpublic figures is in conflict with the public reasonable interest. The conflict hasincreased and intensified especially in the social conditions that media informationtechnology change rapidly. Therefore, how to carry on some reasonable restrictionsto the privacy of public figures in the premise of protection,to strengthen theprotection of the privacy of public figures, has been one of the hotspots in the field oflaw.Based on the researches of the definition and related theory of pravicy, thispaper analyses the public figures and the particularity of their pravicy so as toillustrate that the privacy of public figure should be subject some reasonablerestrictions and protection. Moreover, according to the lagal status about privacy ofpublic figures in China, it gives somes legal suggestions on the further improvementof legal restrictions and protection to privacy of public figures. I hope it will play apositive role to the protection of privacy.