Study Of Internet Privacy

Internet is one of the inventions that have tremendous impact on our society. It not only created a wealth of materials, but also deeply influenced our styles of living and working. Even people's idea of values has been greatly changed. The problem of privacy in cyberspace is just an issue brought forth with the birth of Internet. Nowadays, threat to privacy has already existed widely in that digital network. While, in China, attention that have been paid to it is far from enough. In order to call on people's care to privacy online, the paper makes a thorough research to this problem from four parts:The introduction of the article is a concise explanation of the reason why the author writes it and the academic research status.The issue of invasion of network privacy is put forward with a typical case at the beginning. From some materials the author analyzes the present condition, expatiates the consequences of such conducts.In part two, the thesis theoretically defines the right to privacy the right to network and the characteristics of network privacy in the light of law, analyzes the difference between the right to privacy and the right to privacy in cyberspace. From our law the author induces the characteristics of how it protects the online privacy: indirect protection; legal protection for private information and life of adult as well as the nonage, and so on. Apparently, the shortage includes three aspects: lack the consciousness of legal protection; the weak judicatory; no serious lawmaking.The third part studies the way that how other countries and regions solve the problem of privacy. After analyzing the history and status of these measures a comparative research is made.A comprehensive program to protect Chinese right to privacy online is finally proposed. Basing on the analysis above, aiming at working efficiently in special Chinese circumstances, this program is composed organically of education, technology progress, legislation and international cooperation. Among four solutions legislation is more emphasized in the following aspects: enhancing the studies of personality power theories; perfecting the constitution; establishing the crime on intrusion of privacy in penal code; modification the civil law, enhancing the function of the judicial precedent, setting the law duty. As for technique, we should use COOKIE properly against data collection by the websites; encrypt the email in order for the sake of the important information in the transmission; conceal the hard-dish vol. against invasion of PC. Each elucidation is made on each of the two others respectively.In the conclusion, the author reasserts her views.