Discuss about the protection of personal privacy in social network
Abstract:In recent years, with the development of the internet, the social network has been aquatinted with and applied by most net-citizen. And the application of social network software has brought us much convenient. However it also brought us into the “no-privacy space”. Nowadays, personal privacy data is often being illegally concluded, used and spread. So the public are focusing more attention to the protection of personal privacy in social network. In this following article, it discusses the concepts and features of the privacy right of people in social network first, and then discusses the current situation of the protection of the right to internet privacy in three aspects which include the occasionally occurs of infringement act, the variety of infringement in network and useless of the privacy statement of the social network service providers. Finally it extends some efficient approaches to improve the situation of the privacy protection in social network according to the vitality of the social network atmosphere, the leakage of private information dues to the social network operators’ working for profit and the weakness of the public's privacy protection awareness.
Key Words: the social network; privacy right; protection
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