Article 2 of Tort Liability Law includes the right to privacy. According to China's national conditions and relevant foreign materials, the following acts can be classified as invasion of privacy: 1. Without permission, disclose the name, portrait, address, ID number and telephone number of citizens.
The right to privacy refers to a kind of personality right that the private life and private information secrets enjoyed by natural persons are protected according to law and are not illegally violated, known, collected, used and made public by others. Moreover, the subject of rights has the right to decide to what extent others can interfere in their private lives, whether their privacy is open to others, and the scope and extent of disclosure. Privacy is a basic right of personality.
Article 253- 1 of China's criminal law stipulates that the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units, in violation of state regulations, sell or illegally provide citizens' personal information obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services 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.
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Article 140 Anyone who discloses the privacy of others in written or oral form, or fabricates facts to publicly vilify others' personality, or damages others' reputation by insulting or slandering, causing certain influence, shall be deemed as an act of infringing citizens' right to reputation.