Is it illegal to publish personal privacy online?

Personal privacy is protected by law, and infringement of personal privacy should bear legal responsibility. Some people will post other people's privacy online, which will have a serious impact on other people's lives. Is it illegal to post personal privacy online? The following is my answer to readers. I hope the following knowledge will help readers.

1. Is it illegal to publish personal privacy online?

Publishing personal privacy online, causing serious consequences such as mental disorder, self-mutilation and suicide of the victim or his close relatives, will constitute a crime and can be investigated for criminal responsibility.

Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Defamation by Information Network.

Article 2 Whoever uses the information network to slander others in any of the following circumstances shall be deemed as "serious" as stipulated in the first paragraph of Article 246th of the Criminal Law:

(1) The same defamatory information has actually been clicked or viewed more than 5,000 times, or has been forwarded more than 500 times;

(2) Causing serious consequences such as mental disorder, self-mutilation and suicide of the victim or his close relatives;

(3) Defaming others within two years after being punished by administrative punishment for defamation;

(4) Other serious circumstances.

Criminal law of the people's Republic of China

Article 246 The crime of insult and slander publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights.

The crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be dealt with only if they are told, except those that seriously endanger social order and national interests.

If the victim informs the people's court of the acts specified in the first paragraph through the information network, but it is really difficult to provide evidence, the people's court may request the public security organ to provide assistance.

Second, the latest information (Civil Code 20211came into force)

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, exposing or making public.

Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.

Article 1033 Without the express consent of the obligee, no organization or individual may commit any of the following acts:

(a) by SMS, telephone, instant messaging tools, e-mail, leaflets, etc. Disturb the private life of others;

(2) Entering, peeping or photographing other people's houses, hotel rooms and other private spaces;

(3) Shooting, recording, making public, peeping or eavesdropping on other people's private activities;

(4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies;

(5) Collecting and processing other people's private information;

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

The above knowledge is my answer to relevant legal questions. If personal privacy is published on the Internet, causing serious consequences such as mental disorder, self-mutilation and suicide of the victim or his close relatives, it will constitute a crime and can be investigated for criminal responsibility.