Inadequacy and Improvement of Legal Protection of Sensitive Personal Information

Abstract

In the era of rapid development of big data, the problem of personal information leakage is widely concerned by the society. Among them, sensitive personal information related to the human dignity of natural persons or basic rights such as personal and property is more important. China introduced the Personal Information Protection Law in 2021 to improve the legal system of personal information protection in China, but due to the short development time of the relevant system for the protection of sensitive personal information, resulting in the legal protection of sensitive personal information faces serious challenges in practice, so it is especially important to improve the legal protection of sensitive personal information in China. Based on this, this paper firstly explains the concept and characteristics of sensitive personal information, then analyzes the shortcomings of the legal protection of sensitive personal information, and finally puts forward suggestions for improvement from different perspectives, including improving the principle of “informed consent", strengthening the supervision of industry self-regulation and improving the principle of imputation.