Legal Consideration About The Case Of Snowden

As the case of Edward Snowden happens, a series of legal issues are involved, leading to different social discussions. This essay is mainly about the foreign jurisdiction issues, the restriction of Principles of Non-extradition of Political Offenders and the personal information privacy problems, trying to get the solutions and enlightenment for China related systems by demonstrating these issues.In the part of jurisdiction issues, it clears about the property of Sheremetyevo airport and determines it to be the Russian territory, which leads to the conflict between personal jurisdiction and territorial jurisdiction. According to the international law, the territorial jurisdiction is superior to the personal jurisdiction. Therefore, the jurisdiction of America is restricted in dealing with the case of Snowden. Also, it ensures the particularity of Hong Kong in handling Snowden with the policy of "one city, two systems". At the same time, it puts forward the solutions to the above questions.In the part of the Principles of Non-extradition of Political Offenders, America charges Snowden with other criminals, deliberately avoiding political identity. While Russia puts Snowden under its protection without certain reasons, which in fact proves that Russia recognizes Snowden as political identity. This part analyses the relationship between the behavior of Snowden and the political offenders, and the problems in identifying political offenders, such as its unclear concept and the unfair discretion.In the part of personal information privacy, America, uniting the internet companies, controls American and other country citizens’personal information privacy, which infringes citizens’legitimate interests and causes privacy crisis. Personal information includes normal information and illegal information. For nation security, to collect citizens’information privacy can be deserved. While the legal and normal information should be monitored in a certain range.Through referencing the various problems about the case of Snowden, the essay finally puts forward advice and revelations for China’s extradition system and personal information privacy’s protection, such as signing more bilateral extradition treaties or multilateral treaties, improving extradition law, enhancing the legal status of protecting personal information privacy and strengthening the network protection measures.