People's Republic of China (PRC) Identity Card Law
Article 19. If the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units disclose the personal information of citizens recorded in resident ID cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; If the case does not constitute a crime, it shall be detained by the public security organ from 10 to 15 and fined 5000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.
If a unit commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which constitutes a crime, it shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall detain the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel for more than 10 and less than 15, and impose a fine of more than100000 yuan and less than 500000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.
Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and causes damage to others shall bear civil liability according to law.
Twentieth people's police have one of the following acts, according to the seriousness of the case, be given administrative sanctions; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(a) taking advantage of the convenience of making, issuing and checking resident identity cards to accept other people's property or seek other benefits;
(2) illegally changing the citizen's identity number, or posting information on the resident's identity card other than the matters specified in the first paragraph of Article 3 of this Law, or deliberately posting false information;
(3) Failing to issue resident identity cards within the statutory time limit without justifiable reasons;
(four) in violation of the provisions of the inspection, seizure of identity cards, against the legitimate rights and interests of citizens;
(five) the disclosure of personal information of citizens obtained by making, distributing, inspecting and detaining resident identity cards, which infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of citizens.