A Comparative Study On The Prevention And Control Of Personal Privacy Disclosure In Chinese And American Social Networks

Social network users cover all walks of life,users upload a large amount of personal information to the social network,and the social network platform therefore controls a large number of user personal information.So how to protect the privacy of users on social networks has become an urgent problem to be solved.This paper selects the most representative social network user privacy breach incidents between China and the United States in 2018.First of all,through the use of case analysis and comparative analysis method,this paper compares and analyzes the leakage mechanism and countermeasures of the two countries from three aspects: personal information owner,personal information controller and information user.Secondly,This paper also comparatively analyzes the similarities and differences between the two laws related to the protection of personal information in China's "Network Security Law of the People's Republic of China" and the US "2018 Data Protection Law".Finally,based on all the above,and according to the actual situation in China,This paper puts forward suggestions for three major aspects of China's network security protection work.Through the research,this paper finds that two information leakage incidents occurred in both countries are caused by third-party companies.The reason behind the data leakage also reflects the current representative and time-based Internet marketing tools.Compared with Chinese social network users,American social network users rely heavily on social networks for online personal publishing and dating activities,which indirectly leads to a weak awareness of privacy protection.In addition,the self-monitoring,oversight and other faults generated by the network operators and social network platforms of the two countries are also important reasons for information leakage.The above problems have jointly led to the occurrence of information leakage incidents.The third-party information subjects in the two countries also showed different treatments in response to the incident.Chinese social network users were more alert than US users to detect that their privacy was leaked and sought help from the government.In addition,China's largest Internet company provided technical support for the police to solve the case.However,operators and social networking companies that should bear significant responsibility in this incident did not respond to the incident.The US government has consistently placed the primary responsibility for privacy protection on social networking platforms.The social networking company that was involved also acknowledged its gross negligence and announced the company's improvements in privacy protection.The laws on network data protection in the two countries have different priorities.China's law believes that cybersecurity data protection is a multi-party responsibility,from government to enterprises to service organizations and even education systems.US law believes that The main responsibility of data protection lies in social network companies,who collects who protects,and once leaked,social network companies face huge compensation.Finally,this paper proposes suggestions for the protection of personal privacy of Chinese social networks from the perspectives of online marketing control,improvement of data protection law,and optimization of social network user protocols.