Privacy Protection in China's Cyberspace
January 31, 2003 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesLegislative 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.
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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.
The right of privacy under US law, for example, broadly includes: (1) the right to restrict public access to personal information (e.g., public disclosure of private facts is prohibited); (2) the right to be left alone (e.g., intrusion upon a person's solitude or seclusion is prohibited); (3) the right of protection of one's identity (e.g., appropriation of a person's name or likeness is prohibited); and (4) the right to private communications (e.g., intercepting and divulging private communications is prohibited).