After knowing that your personal information has been leaked, you should know how to safeguard your related rights and interests. First, it is necessary to find out which department to go to after personal information is leaked.
If citizens' personal information is leaked, they can protect their rights and interests in three ways:
The first way is that in China's decision on strengthening the protection of network information, it is pointed out that individuals whose information has been leaked have the right to ask network service providers to delete their private information, or they can take some necessary measures to stop it.
The second method is that the leaked information can be reported to the relevant law enforcement departments. Generally, the departments that can report are public security departments, consumer associations, departments that manage the Internet, and so on. Parties can submit their own reporting information through these departments.
The third method is that the parties can also protect their related rights and interests through legal means. China's Civil Code (202 1 to 1 implementation) and the Law on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests have made specific provisions on citizens' legitimate rights and interests, and the parties can use these laws to demand the infringer to apologize to himself or compensate for economic losses.
After knowing that your personal information has been leaked, you still need to take some remedial measures to deal with things better.
1. We should collect relevant evidence and clues. After personal information is leaked, we should collect some strange phone calls and emails, and the collected information is conducive to our rights protection. After giving the evidence to law enforcement, you can not only help yourself, but also help others.
2. Personal information disclosure, if it has caused serious consequences, we can choose to report it to law enforcement agencies. Stealing other people's personal information and selling it or other illegal acts, if the circumstances are serious, will constitute a criminal offence, and then the public security organs must investigate. Therefore, when our personal information is leaked, we have to protect our legitimate rights and interests through relevant law enforcement departments. Another advantage of reporting a case is to file it with law enforcement agencies to prevent more similar situations from happening.
3. Remind friends and relatives after personal information is leaked to prevent being deceived.
4. The parties can go to a lawyer to defend their rights. If your important personal information is leaked, and you know the relevant clues, the parties can consult professional lawyers to safeguard their rights and interests through legal means.
Another important aspect is that we need to know how to prevent the disclosure of our personal information. The disclosure of personal information may be caused by many reasons. Citizens should enhance their awareness of rights protection and prevent personal information from being stolen.
First of all, citizens' awareness of personal information protection should be continuously enhanced. Don't leave your personal information on the internet at will, and be careful when filling in the information. Then, when dealing with files containing personal information, don't dispose of them at will, but destroy them, because people with ulterior motives are prevented from stealing their personal information from the files. Citizens should protect some files containing important personal information.
Legal basis:
Article 999 of the Civil Law News reporting and supervision by public opinion may reasonably use the names, titles, portraits and personal information of civil subjects in the public interest. If unreasonable use infringes on the personality rights of civil subjects, they shall bear civil liability according to law.