Legal Protection To The Right To Internet Privacy

Privacy, also called secrets of personal life or personal secrets, means peace of personal life free from being interfered unlawfully and personal secrets free from being collected, pried or disclosed unlawfully. The right to privacy is a kind of personal rights which claims peace of personal life and personal secret enjoyed by a natural person protected by law and free from being unlawfully interfered, known, collected, used or disclosed, besides, it is up to the person who enjoys the right to privacy to decide whether someone else is permitted to interfere in and how deep in his private life and whether open his own privacy or not and the extent and degree.Internet privacy is privacy existing in internet or coming forth during the course of personal internet activities, which is a reflected image of real privacy on internet. Internet privacy comes from real privacy, however, differs from it in either forms or ranges. The right to internet privacy is a kind of personal rights which claims peace of personal life and personal secret enjoyed by natural person protected by law and free from being unlawfully interfered, known, collected, used or disclosed in internet. The right to internet privacy, as an image of the right to real privacy, embodies personal rights in internet remarkably. Compared with the right to real privacy, the right to internet privacy pays more attention on how to use privacy actively.Internet has put a great impact on the legal system of privacy protection. Internet has made the relationship between different persons much more closer, changed social values on privacy and the means through which privacy is transmitted or used. And what is the most important is that the foundation of...