Is it illegal to spread other people's chat records?

It is illegal to spread other people's chat records.

This kind of behavior violates others' privacy rights, and spreading chat records may constitute civil tort liability or criminal liability, which depends on whether the chat content involves sensitive information, the intention of the communicator and whether it causes great damage to the parties.

Violations of privacy are as follows:

1. Make public the name, portrait, address and telephone number of citizens without their permission.

2, illegal intrusion, search other people's homes, or otherwise disrupt the peace of others.

3. Illegally stalking others, monitoring their residences, installing eavesdropping equipment, secretly photographing their private lives, and spying on their indoor situations.

4. Illegally spying on others' property status or publishing their property status without others' permission.

5. Open other people's letters, read other people's diaries, spy on other people's private documents and make them public.

To sum up, spreading others' chat records belongs to others' privacy, and it is illegal for the parties to spread others' privacy privately. If it causes serious consequences, it is suspected of committing a crime. At the same time, infringement of others' privacy rights will also bear civil tort liability.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 1032

Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, revealing or making public.