Is it illegal to peek at other people’s cell phone messages?

Legal analysis: Peeping at other people’s mobile phone text messages and diaries is an invasion of privacy and is considered a crime. The right to privacy refers to a kind of personality right that natural persons enjoy in private life and the confidentiality of private information is protected in accordance with the law and is not illegally intruded, informed, collected, utilized and disclosed by others, and the extent to which the subject of the right can interfere with others' Everyone has the right to decide whether to disclose their privacy to others and the scope and extent of the disclosure.

Legal basis: Article 1033 of the "People's Republic of China and Civil Code" Unless otherwise provided by law or with the express consent of the rights holder, no organization or individual may carry out the following acts: ( 1) Intruding on the private life and peace of others through phone calls, text messages, instant messaging tools, emails, flyers, etc.; (2) Entering, photographing, and peeping into other people's homes, hotel rooms, and other private spaces; (3) Photographing, peeping, and eavesdropping , Disclosure of other people’s private activities; (4) Photographing or peeping at other people’s private parts of the body; (5) Processing other people’s private information; (6) Infringing on other people’s privacy rights in other ways.