Research On The Protection Of Citizens’ Right To Know Under The Background Of Epidemic Prevention And Control

In the contemporary society ruled by law,citizens’ right to know has been generally regarded as a basic human right.China’s relevant legislation,such as the regulations on government information disclosure,guarantees citizens’ right to know and meets the actual needs under normal conditions.However,under the epidemic prevention and control,how and by whom to study and judge the epidemic information,and whether the release of epidemic information is limited to the government management department,these problems put forward new requirements for the protection of citizens’ right to know.At the same time,protecting citizens’ right to know has become an important factor in epidemic prevention and control,which can not only make the people know the relevant information of the epidemic in time,so as to take protective measures in time to ensure personal life,health and safety,so as to prevent the spread of the epidemic,but also give full play to citizens’ right to know and establish a communication and cooperation mechanism with the government,Make up for the deficiencies of the government in information disclosure.This thesis will discuss how to protect citizens’ right to know and ensure the normal exercise of this right under the background of epidemic prevention and control from five parts.The first part is the related concepts of citizens’ right to know under the epidemic prevention and control.Firstly,the article defines the connotation of citizens’ right to know,expounds its right attributes,and lays a theoretical foundation for the following article.Secondly,it studies and analyzes the legal protection of citizens’ right to know in the general sense and under the epidemic prevention and control,and summarizes the differences between them on this basis,which highlights the necessity of protecting citizens’ right to know under the epidemic prevention and control.The second part,combined with the practice of protecting citizens’ right to know in epidemic prevention and control,summarizes that based on the need to protect the public’s right to life and health and safeguard the social public interest,the protection scope of personal information will be limited to a certain extent,which will also lead to obstacles in the process of seeking relief for personal information infringed.Finally,it points out that the disclosure of epidemic information by government departments will also be restricted by the system.The third part analyzes the problems in the protection of citizens’ right to know from the legal system level,and summarizes the specific difficulties in the implementation of relevant laws,such as the unidirectional research and judgment of epidemic information,the contradiction with the protection of personal information and the closeness of the epidemic information release process.The fourth part puts forward the measures to solve the above problems,namely,balancing the public interests of epidemic prevention and control and personal information protection,unblocking the epidemic information communication system,establishing a legal norm system focusing on prevention,clarifying the authority of information release of infectious disease prevention and control,and improving the construction of epidemic information supervision system,so as to build and improve the protection mechanism of citizens’ right to know.