The Restriction And Protection Of Public Figure’s Right To Privacy

The Theory of privacy has long been developed,and it has already become an important personality right enjoyed by all the citizens in the world.But the development of science and technology and new media are challenging the legal protection of the right to privacy.China has not yet formed a systematic protection of privacy,which lead to judicial practice in the face of public figures privacy cases entangled.The purpose of this paper is to provide some suggestions for the restriction and protection of public figure’s right to privacy,with the discussion on the typology of public figures.This paper has five parts:The first part is about the following questions of the privacy to public figures,by discussing some relevant cases.such as whether it is necessary to define the concept of"public figure" and how to define the boundary of the right to privacy of public figures.The second part is about the definition of the basis issues involved in the public figure’s right to privacy,the concept of publics is derived from the origin and development of privacy and privacy,this part is focusing on the definitions of public figure,and the judgment standard of different types of public figures.After presenting the analysis of the particularity of the public figure’s right to privacy,the third part researches the theoretical basis of the restrictions on public figure’s right to privacy.Under the background of information age,the fourth part is about the right of privacy in public places,network infringement of privacy and the special groups of public figures,which focuses on using the theory of reasonable expectation of privacy to judge whether the behavior constitutes infringement or not in judicial practice.The fifth part puts forward the suggestions,thought analyzing the shortcomings of the protection of the problem in our country at present.first of all,it is necessary to clarify the legal status of public figures in the theoretical level,and then the practical level can learn from the theory of "reasonable privacy expectation" in the United States,and then as a means to determine the scope of privacy and privacy infringement or not.