Legal Interest Protection of Data Security in China: Overseas Experience and Legislation
CAI Shi-lin1,2
1. School of Humanities and Arts, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116; 2. School of Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116
Abstract:Data, the core element for all emerging technologies to evolve from concept to commercialization, is certainly a focus in legislation for all countries across the world. The legal interests of data security include the confidentiality, integrity and usefulness of data. They not only guide criminal legislation and judicature, but also become an important reason to prove that data security requires independent protection. Studying the three typical foreign legislative protection models, we find that they all, in essence, take the independent criminal law protection of data as the legislative motivation, and constantly specify types of data crimes despite differences in form. In comparison, China’s criminal law has many problems regarding the legislation of data security: the legislative concept is outdated, still clinging to the protection system centered on the security of “computer information system”; there are obvious loopholes in punishment, as a consequence the regulations regarding data crimes are neither comprehensive nor coordinated; the confusion in judicial application constitutes obstacles in the legal application of criminal charges. In the future, China’s criminal legislation should be based on the technical characteristics of data and the content of data security legal interests, specifying types of data crime. Besides, we should build an independent and comprehensive regulatory system of criminal law from four perspectives of invasion, destruction, acquisition, and supervisory administration.
蔡士林. 我国数据安全法益保护:域外经验与立法路径[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2022, 39(6): 97-106.
CAI Shi-lin. Legal Interest Protection of Data Security in China: Overseas Experience and Legislation. , 2022, 39(6): 97-106.