Privacy Protection in China's Cyberspace

Legislative issues arising out of the popularity of the Internet in China include the thorny problems of privacy and the rights of the individual. The debate is more complicated in a State where the interests of society as a whole have always been seen as paramount.

4 minute readJanuary 31, 2003 at 11:58 PM
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It is generally accepted that the modern concept of personal privacy originated in western industrialized countries, which found that rapid economic growth and the resulting social change made legal protection for personal rights necessary.

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