1. Personal information refers to all kinds of information recorded by electronic or other means that can identify a natural person alone or in combination with other information, including but not limited to the natural person's name, date of birth, ID number, personal biometric information, address, telephone number, etc.
2. Whoever, in violation of relevant state regulations, sells or provides personal information of citizens to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also, or shall 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.
3. Whoever, in violation of relevant state regulations, sells or provides personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing duties or providing services for others 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.
4. If a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph. Network operators shall not collect personal information irrelevant to the services they provide, and shall not collect and use personal information in violation of the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and the agreement between the two parties, and shall handle the personal information they save in accordance with the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and the agreement with users.
Network operators shall not collect personal information irrelevant to the services they provide, and shall not collect and use personal information in violation of the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and the agreement between the two parties, and shall handle the personal information they save in accordance with the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and the agreement with users. Personal information shall be used, and the saved personal information shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of laws and administrative regulations and the agreement with users.
Legal basis:
According to the relevant provisions of Article 253 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the safe exchange of personal information on the Internet may constitute a crime of infringing citizens' personal information. The crime of infringing citizens' personal information refers to a serious act in which the perpetrator violates the relevant provisions of the state and sells or provides citizens' personal information to others.