Invasion of personal privacy and detention for a few days

Legal analysis: the longest detention for the crime of infringing personal information is 37 days, and the longest criminal detention is 37 days. However, criminal detention is only the beginning of investigating criminal responsibility, and it will turn into arrest within 37 days, and then it will be detained for a long time until the court makes an effective judgment. Staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units who, in violation of state regulations, sell or illegally provide citizens' personal information obtained by their own units in the course of performing their duties or providing services to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined. Whoever steals or illegally obtains the above information by other means, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph.

Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

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 103 Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts: (1) Interfere with the private life and peace of life of others by means of telephone, short messages, instant messaging tools, e-mails, leaflets, etc. ; (2) Entering, taking photos or peeping into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms; (3) Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping or revealing other people's private activities; (4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies; (5) handling other people's private information; (6) Infringe upon the privacy of others in other ways.