BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) — Yan Maokun, director of the Research Office of the Supreme People’s Court, introduced today that since the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment (IX), public security organs at all levels have relied on the revised criminal law provisions, the crime of infringing citizens’ personal information is severely punished, and the number of cases has increased significantly. From November 2015 to December 2016, the National Court received 495 new criminal cases of infringement of citizens’ personal information, and concluded 464 cases. The number of effective judgments was 697.
On May 9, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate jointly held a press conference to release the Supreme People’s Court, interpretation of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on several issues concerning the application of law in handling criminal cases of infringement of citizens’ personal information and relevant typical cases and answering questions from reporters.
On April 18, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department reported that the police destroyed several telecommunications networks swindling gang and seized more than 16 million citizen information. Taken by China News Agency reporter Chen Xiaoxiao
Yan Maokun introduced that with the advancement of information construction, information resources have become an important factor of production and social wealth. At the same time, the problem of personal information leakage is serious, and personal information security has become a matter of great concern to the whole society. In order to protect citizens’ personal information, the Criminal Law Amendment (VII), which came into force on February 28, 2009, added one of the two hundred and fifty-three articles of the criminal law, stipulating the sale, crime of illegally providing personal information of citizens and crime of illegally obtaining personal information of citizens.
Yan Maokun introduced that after the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment (VII), from February, 2009 to October, 2015, the national courts concluded the sale, illegally providing citizens’ personal information, there were 969 criminal cases of illegal acquisition of citizens’ personal information, and 1415 effective judgments.
Yan Maokun introduced that in recent years, crimes against citizens’ personal information are still at a high incidence, and they are in convergence with crimes such as telecom network fraud, extortion, kidnapping and so on, with more serious social harm. In order to plus-sized the protection of citizens’ personal information, the Criminal Law Amendment (IX), which came into force on November 1, 2015, revised and perfected one of Article 253 of the criminal law:
The first is to expand the scope of the subject of the crime and stipulate that any unit or individual violates the relevant provisions of the state to obtain, sell or provide personal information of citizens. If the circumstances are serious, it will constitute a crime;
The second is to clearly stipulate that those who sell or provide personal information of citizens obtained in the process of performing their duties or providing services to others shall be given heavier punishment;
The third is to increase the statutory punishment and add the stipulation that “if the circumstances are particularly serious, the penalty shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and the penalty shall be imposed”.
Yan Maokun introduced that after the revision, “the crime of selling and illegally providing citizens’ personal information” and “the crime of illegally obtaining citizens’ personal information” were integrated into “the crime of infringing citizens’ personal information”.
Yan Maokun introduced that since the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment (IX), public security organs at all levels have severely punished crimes against citizens’ personal information according to the revised criminal law provisions, and the number of cases has increased significantly. From November 2015 to December 2016, the National Court received 495 new criminal cases of infringement of citizens’ personal information, and concluded 464 cases. The number of effective judgments was 697.
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zhongxin.com, May 9th, Yan Maokun, director of the Research Office of the Supreme People’s Court, introduced today that since the implementation of the Criminal Law Amendment (IX), public security organs at all levels have, in accordance with the revised criminal law provisions, severely punish crimes against citizens’ personal information