The police check personal information privately and reveal other people's affairs.

As a government worker, the police are administrative. It is legal for the police to consult citizens' household registration data and other information because of work needs or case investigation. However, it is illegal for the police to disclose citizens' personal information to irrelevant personnel, and the person who caused the damage should be liable for compensation, even if it did not cause damage to citizens.

Legal analysis

If the police inquire about other people's personal information through the public security system in order to achieve their own purposes and reveal other people's personal privacy, causing all kinds of troubles and losses to the parties and their relatives, if they sell or provide citizens' personal information obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services to others, in violation of relevant state regulations, they will be severely punished in accordance with relevant regulations. As government workers, the police are administrative. It is legal for the police to consult information such as citizens' household registration data because of work needs or case investigation. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined. If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. State functionaries who divulge state secrets, work secrets or business secrets and personal privacy mastered in the performance of their duties, resulting in adverse consequences, shall be given disciplinary sanctions such as warning, demerit recording and gross demerit recording; If the circumstances are serious, demotion or dismissal shall be given; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be dismissed.

legal ground

Article 19 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards, if the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units disclose the personal information of citizens recorded in resident identity cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; If the case does not constitute a crime, it shall be detained by the public security organ from 10 to 15 and fined 5000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated. If a unit commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which constitutes a crime, it shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall detain the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel for more than 10 and less than 15, and impose a fine of more than100000 yuan and less than 500000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated. Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and causes damage to others shall bear civil liability according to law.