Is it illegal to spread other people’s private videos?

Legal analysis: Distributing personal privacy videos through social software and causing serious consequences is a criminal act, and criminal liability will be pursued according to the crime of insult or defamation.

Legal basis: "The People's Republic of China and the Civil Code"

Article 1032: Natural persons enjoy the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe on the privacy rights of others through spying, intrusion, leakage, disclosure, etc.

Privacy is a natural person’s private life and peace, and the private space, private activities, and private information that he does not want others to know.

Article 1,033 Unless otherwise provided by law or with the express consent of the right holder, no organization or individual may carry out the following acts:

(1) By phone or text message , instant messaging tools, emails, flyers, etc. to intrude on the private life and peace of others;

(2) Enter, photograph, and peek into other people's homes, hotel rooms, and other private spaces;

(3) Photographing, peeping, eavesdropping, and disclosing the private activities of others;

(4) Photographing, peeping at the private parts of others' bodies;

(5) Processing others' private information;

(6) Infringe on the privacy rights of others in other ways.

Article 364 of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" detention or control.

Whoever organizes the broadcast of obscene movies, videos and other audio and video products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or surveillance, and shall also be fined; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 10 years and shall also be fined. gold.

Whoever produces or copies obscene movies, videos and other audio-visual products for broadcast shall be severely punished in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2.

Those who disseminate obscene materials to minors under the age of 18 shall be severely punished.