Amendment Of Identity Card Law To Strengthen Confidentiality Of Citizens' Information

The twenty-third session of the Standing Committee of the eleven National People's Congress is being held in Beijing recently. Amendment Draft. Some members of the Standing Committee suggested that we should strengthen the sense of confidentiality of citizens and related units to citizens' information, especially fingerprint information, take precautions to be in place, clarify legal responsibilities, and ensure that there is no problem.

Zhu Qi said that the draft amendment specifically stipulates the confidentiality of citizen information, especially fingerprint information, which is very necessary. citizen information Especially if fingerprint information is collected centrally, if the information is leaked out or is stolen by malicious people, the consequences will be hard to imagine. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the information of citizens and related units, especially the fingerprint information. secrecy Consciousness.

Chen Sixi said that the information on citizens should be strengthened. Especially after the draft has increased the scope of fingerprint information and the use of resident identity cards, the protection should be strengthened. The draft has proposed that we should strengthen protection and take effective measures in the specific implementation process.

Members of the Committee of Li Lianning also believe that everyone is concerned about the effective protection of citizens' personal information. We should prevent the staff concerned from using such information to make profits. This amendment has added a provision to the draft, but this provision still causes the problem of low cost of illegal operation. According to the provisions of the draft, the Public Security Bureau will not be guilty of a crime. It will only be detained from 10 days to less than 15 days. The illegal gains will be confiscated, and the additional penalty of 5000 yuan will be fine. Under the present circumstances, especially when the Internet information develops so fast, the leakage of personal information and the violation of personal information of citizens often occur. If the punishment is not enough, the offender may risk this kind of low risk to break the law. It is recommended to increase administrative penalties for this act. In addition, it is proposed to increase civil liability in this area. Disclosure of citizens' personal information is actually a violation of individual rights of citizens. If we investigate the civil liability of offenders, it will increase their illegal costs. In addition, from the unit, if the staff of a unit intentionally purposely divulge the information of the executive unit, the unit should also be jointly and severally liable, so that the unit attaches importance to the supervision, management and education of the staff.

Li Lianning suggested that one paragraph should be added to the draft, which is stated as follows: "Whoever acts in the preceding paragraph shall bear civil liability." Where the staff member of a unit divulges the citizen's personal information in the course of performing his duties or providing services, his unit shall bear civil joint and several liability.

Li Lianning also suggested that the authorities should adopt encryption measures when converting personal fingerprint information into digital information. Only when authorized information is available, can the fingerprint information be used.

Members of the Xu Zhenchao Committee suggested that the regulations should be increased and compensation should be made for the loss of citizens' personal information to citizens.