Privacy Protection and Criminal Regulation in the Digital Era: An Analysis of Online Personal Information Disclosure

Jiashuo Wang

2025

Abstract

The disclosure of personal information online has become increasingly rampant in the digital era. Such behaviour infringes upon citizens' rights, posing numerous challenges for criminal regulation. Centring on the Crime of Infringing on Citizens' Personal Information under the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, this article employs doctrinal legal analysis and comparative law methods to systematically explore the judicial difficulties and governance paths concerning this behaviour. The study reveals that the key dilemmas in judicial practice involve defining the illegality of the secondary use of publicly available information, the absence of a substantive standard for determining serious circumstances, and the challenges of ascertaining joint criminality and platform liability in collective actions. The paper further posits that a singular model of criminal punishment has functional limitations and necessitates a balance between combating crime and safeguarding rights, as well as between public supervision and privacy protection. Therefore, future governance should transcend traditional criminal law thinking. A comprehensive governance framework should be constructed by refining judicial standards, clarifying platform liability, and drawing on foreign experiences. This framework should integrate criminal, administrative, civil, and social co-governance to achieve the long-term governance of cyberspace.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wang J. (2025). Privacy Protection and Criminal Regulation in the Digital Era: An Analysis of Online Personal Information Disclosure. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS; ISBN 978-989-758-785-6, SciTePress, pages 534-539. DOI: 10.5220/0014389300004859

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icplss25,
author={Jiashuo Wang},
title={Privacy Protection and Criminal Regulation in the Digital Era: An Analysis of Online Personal Information Disclosure},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS},
year={2025},
pages={534-539},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014389300004859},
isbn={978-989-758-785-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS
TI - Privacy Protection and Criminal Regulation in the Digital Era: An Analysis of Online Personal Information Disclosure
SN - 978-989-758-785-6
AU - Wang J.
PY - 2025
SP - 534
EP - 539
DO - 10.5220/0014389300004859
PB - SciTePress