论网络环境下公众人物隐私权的法律保护.pdfVIP

Abstract Abstract The American scholar Charles Fried once said: There is no privacy, People will lose an important element to its human. Privacy is of great significance for an individual. The value of the privacy lies not only in protecting the rights of individuals’ lives, space and affairs against intrusive, but more importantly,protecting the rights of individuals’ personal information and information environment. Compared with the traditional environment, the object and connotation of privacy are more vulnerable to abuse in the information age, especially in the Internet age. The rapid development of Internet gives rise to the prosperity of society and economy, at the same time, brings peoples privacy rights unexpected problems. Under the age of the Internet information, communication becomes more frequent and convenient than traditional era, which brings convenience to peoples life, on the other hand, more difficulty in protecting the rights of information privacy. Under the network environment, invasion of privacy rights of information grows with each passing day, which brings serious consequences for individuals and society. As a special group, public figures are a major concern on their privacy right protection, under the network environment. This paper discusses the meaning and characteristics of network privacy, plus, the definition, characteristic and particularity of public figures’ privacy under the network environment. With the European Union, the United States and other countries privacy protection comparison, it analyses the currency of