Current situation and countermeasures of the legal protection of digital archives user’s privacy in China

Abstract

In order to protect the digital archives users’ privacy interests and wins more solid social foundation and wider living space for the development of the digital archives career, the article begins with the privacy and network privacy and lists the new connotation of digital archives users’ privacy. It also analyzes the privacy right when digital archives collecting, transporting, storing and using the users’ personal information. Then it describes the current situation of the legal protection of digital archives users’ privacy in China. In regard to the protection of the digital archives users’ privacy in China, the author thinks three steps should be taken. Firstly, privacy should be protected directly as an independent right of human dignity and unitary protective laws of privacy should be made. Secondly, protective regulations of digital archives users’ privacy should be made. Thirdly, the contents of protecting users’ privacy should be added to the Archives Laws.