Modern Social Science Research

The emphasis on the protection of personal privacy is an essential component of the construction of a rule-of-law society, while government information disclosure is an inherent part of the construction of a rule-of-law government. Currently, there exists a certain conflict between the two. In fact, it is a conflict between the right to know and the right to privacy. In today's rapidly changing technological environment, although data has brought great convenience to people’lives, the use of big data in information disclosure also poses a certain threat to the protection of personal privacy. To balance the relationship between the protection of privacy rights and the public power of the government through a rule-of-law mindset, it is necessary to remove the difficulty in defining privacy from a legal perspective, standardize the procedures for information disclosure, and improve the remedies for privacy rights violations.

Personal privacy; Privacy rights; Government information disclosure