How can a company sue an individual without making it public online? Don't let others find out through eye examination. Because it involves trade secrets?

Companies sue individuals to prevent others from finding out through eye-catching and other means, not because they involve industry secrets, but mainly to protect personal privacy.

Legal analysis

Personal privacy refers to secrets that citizens are unwilling to reveal or know to others in their personal lives. Privacy is a kind of personality right that natural persons enjoy to control their personal information, private activities and private fields unrelated to public interests. 1. Make public the name, portrait, address and telephone number of citizens without their consent. 2, illegal intrusion, search other people's homes, or otherwise disrupt the peace of others. 3. Illegally stalking others, monitoring others' residences, installing eavesdropping equipment, secretly photographing others' private lives, and spying on others' indoor conditions. 4. Illegally spying on others' property status or publishing their property status without others' permission. 5. Privately open other people's letters, peek at other people's diaries, spy on other people's private documents and make them public. 6. Investigate and spy on other people's social relations to make them illegal. 7, interfere with other couples' sexual life or investigation. 8. Publicize other people's extramarital sex life to the public. 9, the disclosure of personal materials of citizens or open or expand the scope of disclosure. 10, collecting pure personal information that citizens are unwilling to disclose to the society. If network users or network service providers use the network to disclose personal privacy and other personal information, such as genetic information, medical records, health examination data, criminal records, home addresses, private activities, etc. If a natural person causes damage to others and the infringed party requests him to bear tort liability, the court shall support it.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 110 A natural person enjoys the right to life, body, health, name, portrait, reputation, honor, privacy and marital autonomy. Legal persons and unincorporated organizations enjoy the right of name, reputation and honor.

Article 103 Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts: (1) Interfere with the private life and peace of life of others by means of telephone, short messages, instant messaging tools, e-mails, leaflets, etc. ; (2) Entering, taking photos or peeping into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms; (3) Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping or revealing other people's private activities; (4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies; (5) handling other people's private information; (6) Infringe upon the privacy of others in other ways.