Wuyu Xiao, Weijun Wu

Wuyu Xiao

30 Dec. 2022

COVID-19 pandemic, Personal privacy, Crisis countermeasures.

Since January 2020, the personal privacy protection has increasingly attracted widespread attention against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sorts out the current situation of privacy protection system in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in China, and reveals the existing problems such as the widespread leakage of personal privacy, the network violence caused by the weak protection of personal privacy, and the difficulties in safeguarding and relieving personal privacy after being violated. From this point of view, it is suggested to first improve the relevant provisions on the existing laws and policies, establish the principle of paying equal attention to public welfare maintenance and privacy protection, refine the content of personal privacy, and improve the law enforcement mechanism of personal privacy protection; secondly, it is necessary to improve the ability of administrative organs to deal with crisis, enhance the public officials' awareness of privacy protection, strictly publicize government information in crisis response, and improve the supervision and correction mechanism in crisis response; and finally, it is required to create a good atmosphere for the personal privacy protection, pay attention to the knowledge publicity of personal privacy protection, increase the investigation and punishment of personal privacy infringement, and guide the network platform to strengthen the industry self-discipline management.

© 2023, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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