Research On The Legal Issue Of Government Affairs Wechat

With the development of mobile technology, more and more government affairs activities are moved to mobileterminals. Government affairs wechat is the official account registered by government on wechat. Initially, its main function is to post messages; as its development, it gradually becomes a multi-functional integrated platform with delivering messages, public opinions guiding, interactions between governments and the public, business handling, etc. As a new administrative practice,government affairs wechat is the product of administrative reform and internet information technology. This new practice is different from traditional networked administrative law enforcement, as it conforms to the times, virtual, electronization and participation of relative persons.As government affairs wechat is a new practice, however, some risks and problems show up during administrative enforcement. Take “Wuhan traffic police” as an example, it will be faced a lot of legal issues in the functions of “information delivery”,“vehicle administration” and “moments of traffic violation”.First, government affiars we chat, as a new platform for government opening information, some authority documents have conclude the evaluation standard for the opening of government affairs and the quantity of massages delivery, however, its standards need to be perfect and specific; messages and information applied for opening also need to be focused, its quantity and content is also to be standardized.Second, as a new platform for internet interactive services dealing, government affairs wechat electronizes written application. It leads the spread of personal information in the virtual internet space, causing risks everywhere in the space. It reminds us to pay attention to legal protection to personal information; responsibilities and duties among governments, internet service provider and individual shall be clear and definite.Third, government affairs wechat has provided a new platform to public for participating. “Wechat report”embodies “the mass widespread participating”. In practice, on the one hand, administrative organizationshould guide public to participateadministrative activities; on the other hand, it shall strictly select information as the law provided by public, while verifiedby evidence exclusion rules, avoiding damage to counterpart.From the point of Administrative Law, the rapid development of government affairs wechat facilitate the realization of right to know and participate, it providesconvenient,efficient and low-cost online-services. As there is no E-government law in China, related legislation is lagging behind. Developing government affairs wechat and enhancing e-government affairs must conform to law, and pay attention to right protection to counterparts.