Personal privacy privacy of individual refers to the secrets in a citizen’s personal life that he or she is unwilling to disclose or know to others (people outside a certain range). The right to privacy is a personality right enjoyed by natural persons to control their personal information, private activities and private fields that have nothing to do with public interests.
1. Constitution of the People's Republic of China:
Article 38 The personal dignity of citizens of the People's Republic of China shall not be violated. It is prohibited to use any method to insult, slander, or make false accusations against citizens.
Article 39 The residences of citizens of the People's Republic of China are inviolable. Illegal searches or intrusions into citizens' homes are prohibited.
Article 40 The freedom of communication and the confidentiality of communication of citizens of the People’s Republic of China are protected by law. Except for the need for national security or the investigation of criminal crimes, where the public security organs or procuratorial organs inspect communications in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law, no organization or individual may infringe on citizens' freedom of communication and communication confidentiality for any reason.
2. General Principles of the People's Republic of China and the Civil Law:
Article 100 Citizens enjoy the right of portrait, and citizens' portraits may not be used for profit-making purposes without their consent.
Article 101. Citizens and legal persons enjoy the right to reputation. The personal dignity of citizens is protected by law. It is prohibited to damage the reputation of citizens or legal persons by means of insult, slander, etc.
Violations of privacy rights are summarized into the following ten categories:
1. Publicizing a citizen’s name, portrait, address and phone number without their permission.
2. Illegal intrusion and search of other people’s homes, or other ways of destroying the peace of other people’s homes.
3. Illegal stalking of others, surveillance of other people’s residences, installation of eavesdropping equipment, private filming of other people’s private lives, and spying on other people’s indoor situations.
4. Illegally spy on other people’s property status or publish their property status without their permission.
5. Open other people’s letters privately, peek into other people’s diaries, spy on the contents of other people’s private files, and make them public.
6. Investigate and spy on other people’s social relationships and make them illegally public.
7. Interfere with other people’s sexual life or investigate and publish it.
8. Announce other people’s extramarital sex life to the public.
9. Leak citizens’ personal materials or make them public or expand the scope of disclosure.
10. Collect purely personal information that citizens are unwilling to disclose to the public.