美国网络隐私保护行业自律模式的探究

American network privacy protection industry autonomy mode research

信息时代瞬时万变,政府仓促过早立法容易造成立法无法与科技发展同步,因此美国在网络隐私保护领域谨慎的采取行业自律模式。该模式使企业、网络行业能够根据科技发展需要,调整其隐私保护政策,避免了政府过度干预制约科技的发展;但毕竟是企业自我管束,为了减轻责任,企业参与自律的积极性不高;而自律组织在发挥监督作用过程中缺乏强制执行力和公正性不足等问题。

In a rapidly changing information era,a hasty legislation by government tends to leads to a gap between legal and scientific and technologic developments.Therefore,to protect Internet privacy,the U.S.has cautiously chosen an autonomous system for business operators of the Internet industry,in which they themselves can adjust their ways to protect privacy in the light of scientific and technologic developments.However,the autonomous system,after all,is a kind of self-regulation,so companies participated in it impassively for fear that it may add to their social responsibility;and self-regulation organizations can＇t play their roles fully either,which can be exemplified by that their supervisions are difficult to enforce and may be unequal.