Legal Protection for Personal Information Privacy

While the privacy concerns raised by advances in information technologies are widely recognized, recent developments have led to a convergence of these technologies in many situations, presenting new challenges to the right to privacy. This paper examines the information technologies and its potential impact on individual privacy interests. The paper first discusses the right to privacy, personal information and information privacy separately, noting ways that new technologies create privacy concerns. The paper then examines the legislation in U.S., E.U. Finally, the paper examines existing protections for privacy in China, considers why they are insufficient, and proposes measures to enhance the legal protection of privacy interests to address these new technologies.