Bombarded by spam marketing text messages, harassing phone calls, personal information being trafficked at will... At present, the leakage of personal information has become a key issue of concern. On November 1, the Personal Information Protection Law came into effect. So what information is sensitive? Is "big data killing" legal? Your past encounters and concerns have been clearly stipulated in this law, and today we will take you into the "Personal Information Protection Law".
On weekdays, do you often receive these inexplicable phone calls or text messages, who are they? How can the information be so well-informed and accurate? How is our privacy leaked? Are their actions illegal? After November 1, special provisions on personal information, provisions on the protection of personal privacy will be protected by law.
Lawyer Cao Yifan: On the Internet, we can buy, sell, and steal personal information, understand our needs, and may push some sales information to us every three to five minutes, and even conduct telecommunications fraud on us, which will cause us to suffer losses to our property and reputation. At present, a "Personal Information Protection Law" has been systematically and specially established, and the protection of personal information has been strengthened.
The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Personal Information has a total of eight chapters and 74 articles, which clearly regulate the handling of sensitive personal information such as no excessive collection of personal information, "big data killing", and face information, and improve the working mechanism for personal information protection complaints and reports.
Lawyer Cao Yifan: The Personal Information Protection Law sets up administrative penalties of different levels, and for minor or general illegal acts that do not cause serious consequences, the law enforcement departments may order corrections, give warnings, confiscate, and illegal gains, and impose a fine of up to one million yuan for refusal to make corrections, up to 50 million yuan or 5 percent of the turnover of the previous year for serious violations, and may impose penalties on relevant responsible personnel. (Reporter Zhao Xia Wang Ziyu)
Source: Taiyuan Radio and Television News Channel