Research On The Legal Protection Of The Right To Delete Personal Information In China

Since the 21 st century,human beings have entered the information society.However,the permanence,openness,and sharing of digital memory have brought many problems to human beings.Whether personal information can be deleted has become an urgent problem that needs to be answered.The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in a case in 2014.The decision has sparked heated discussions about the right to delete personal information,as well as the global legal industry’s keen attention to this right.This case is the Google case in Spain.The European Union then enacted the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018,which established the right to erasure of personal information as a formal right.In recent years,scholars from various countries have become the focus of research on the nature and meaning of the right to delete personal information,as well as the relationship between it and other rights.In recent years,research hotspots in the academic circles of various countries.On November 1,2021,the provisions of the "Personal Information Protection Law" were officially promulgated and implemented,which clearly stipulates the legal right of information subjects to automatically block and delete information.In terms of how to protect their personal information,it further expands the content of information.scope,while strengthening the protection of citizens’ personal information security.This is consistent with our country’s legislative orientation and affirms the value of the right to delete personal information.This article intends to start with the path of personal information empowerment,and on the basis of the Personal Information Protection Law,refine the provisions on the right to delete,so as to help individuals better manage their own information rights and interests,and risk anticipation and prevention.This article is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction,which mainly describes the research background,theoretical research significance and practical application significance,literature review of domestic and foreign theoretical research and status quo summary,research methods and outstanding innovations.The second part is the research on the general issues of the right to delete personal information,which defines some concepts,properties and the relationship with other rights,especially the comparative research on the right to delete personal information and the right to be forgotten,so as to affirm the personal information The value and independent attribute of the right of deletion in our country.The third part is a review of the current development status of the legal protection of the right to delete personal information in my country and some existing problems,and combined with the judicial cases in our country’s current practice to find that there are some problems in the application of the right to delete personal information.The fourth part is the legal regulation and enlightenment of the protection of the right to erasure of personal information outside the territory.The fifth part provides suggestions for improvement on some problems of the right to delete personal information in my country,including improving the power structure of the right to delete personal information,strengthening the protection of the right to delete personal information,and improving the legal protection mechanism for the right to delete personal information.