Current location - Trademark Inquiry Complete Network - Overdue credit card - Is it illegal to disclose personal information?
Is it illegal to disclose personal information?
Citizens' personal information belongs to privacy, and it cannot be disclosed to others at will, otherwise it will constitute the crime of disclosing citizens' personal information and will be convicted and punished in law. "Staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units who, in violation of state regulations, sell or illegally provide citizens' personal information obtained by their own units in the course of performing their duties or providing services to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

"Whoever steals or illegally obtains the above information by other means, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

If a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished for the crime of selling or illegally providing citizens' personal information and the crime of illegally obtaining citizens' personal information in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph.

According to relevant laws and regulations, it is illegal to disclose other people's ID card information.

If the staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units disclose the personal information of citizens recorded in resident ID cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; If the case does not constitute a crime, it shall be detained by the public security organ from 10 to 15 and fined 5000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.

If a unit commits the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph, which constitutes a crime, it shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; If it does not constitute a crime, the public security organ shall detain the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel for more than 10 and less than 15, and impose a fine of more than100000 yuan and less than 500000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated. Whoever commits the acts mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs and causes damage to others shall bear civil liability according to law.

The disclosure of personal information mainly has the following ways.

1. Use Internet search engines to search personal information, collect it into a book, and sell it to people who need to buy it at a certain price;

2, hotel accommodation, insurance companies, leasing companies, bank accreditation, telecommunications, mobile, China Unicom, real estate, postal departments and other departments and places that need real-name registration of identity documents, individual personnel use the convenience of registration to disclose customer personal information;

3. Individual illegal typing shops and copying shops use the convenience of copying and typing to archive personal information, bind it into volumes and sell it to the outside world;

4. Stealing other people's personal information in the name of various "questionnaires". They claim that as long as you fill in the detailed contact information, income and credit card information on the "questionnaire" and conduct a simple "tick" survey, you can get prizes of different awards, so as to induce people to fill in personal information;

5. Fill in the name, home address and contact information on the front and back of the lottery, which may lead to the disclosure of personal information;

6. When purchasing electronic products, vehicles and other items, personal information is used by people who fill out informal "after-sales service forms" in existing enterprises;

7, supermarkets, shopping malls through the mail to the masses to apply for free membership card information, through personal leaks.

To sum up: this is illegal. As the staff of state organs, they will come into contact with citizens' personal information in their work. Take the police as an example. The police will come into contact with a lot of personal information in their work. If the police disclose citizens' personal information, resulting in citizens' mental or economic losses, they need to bear legal responsibility.

Legal basis:

Article 253 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

The crime of infringing citizens' personal information violates the relevant provisions of the state and sells or provides citizens' personal information to others. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.

Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the state, sells or provides others with personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Whoever steals or illegally obtains citizens' personal information by other means shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.

Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.