Disclosing personal information is not only illegal, but also may constitute a crime. The object of infringement is the security of citizens' personal identity information and the order of citizenship management. Objectively, it shows that the perpetrator collects citizens' personal information by stealing or buying, and the circumstances are serious. The subject of this crime is the crime of selling or illegally providing citizens' personal information. The subject of this crime is a special subject, and the subjective aspect is intentional.
According to the crime of infringing citizens' personal information in Article 253 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), selling or providing citizens' personal information to others in violation of relevant state regulations. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the state, sells or provides others with personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Whoever steals or illegally obtains citizens' personal information by other means shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph. Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.
The main ways to disclose personal information are:
1. Use Internet search engines to search personal information, collect it into a book, and sell it to people who need to buy it at a certain price;
2, hotel accommodation, insurance companies, leasing companies, bank accreditation, telecommunications, mobile, China Unicom, real estate, postal departments and other departments and places that need real-name registration of identity documents, individual personnel use the convenience of registration to disclose customer personal information;
3. Individual illegal typing shops and copying shops use the convenience of copying and typing to archive personal information, bind it into volumes and sell it to the outside world;
4. Fill in the name, home address and contact information on the front and back of the lottery, which may lead to the disclosure of personal information;
5. The information of supermarkets and shopping malls applying for membership cards free of charge to the masses by mail is leaked through individuals.
I hope the above content can help you. If in doubt, please consult a professional lawyer.
Legal basis: Article 1032 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.
Forty-second "People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Management Punishment Law"
Anyone who peeps, takes candid photos, eavesdrops or spreads others' privacy shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.
One of the 253rd articles of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The crime of infringing citizens' personal information violates the relevant provisions of the state and sells or provides citizens' personal information to others. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the state, sells or provides others with personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Whoever steals or illegally obtains citizens' personal information by other means shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph. Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.