The Internet Age: Laws Should Safeguard Personal Information Security

The rapid development of the Internet has made it a platform for gathering people's voices. However, if all of us have no scruples to say what we want to say and make all sorts of news unrecognizable, it will also make it a land of filth. In a recent cyber anti-corruption campaign, the photo of a female student at Xiamen University was misappropriated and passed on as an official mistress photo on the Internet. This has caused great trouble for the parties. Then, in the Internet era, how to protect the security of Internet users' personal information?

Since 2003, various types of blogs have begun to emerge in large numbers, and various offline or online RSS readers have flooded the market. People use webpages to share and share each other's network information. Internet users only need simple registration, they can easily have their own network logs, and according to the principle of “sharing, opening, and interaction”, each netizen is truly a provider and sharer of information. As the Internet gradually becomes a social platform, citizens’ personal information security is also threatened. In particular, “Human Flesh Search” leaves everyone’s privacy hidden.

The social and cultural psychology and relevant laws and regulations that are not condemned by the law are not perfected. When citizens are infringed upon, the Internet users who act as “helpers” for “onlookers” can only do nothing. At present, the protection of personal information in the departmental law still stays within the protection of the right of reputation, and only the privacy of others is disclosed, and if the privacy of others is not used in the sense of “damage”, it will not be pursued. However, individual privacy rights are not protected. Any netizen may be “putting a shot in the gun” and become a victim of the Internet age.

Therefore, to fundamentally solve the problem of personal information security protection, in addition to requiring netizens to be self-discipline, it must be clear from the height of the law that the autonomy of personal information is a basic human right, and it is clear that individuals have autonomous decisions on information limited to themselves. The right to decide whether or not to spread and how much to spread.

The rapid development of the Internet should not "make people insecure". This, in order to maintain the health and safety of the Internet environment, requires netizens, self-discipline of websites, law-abiding, and more perfect laws and regulations.