澳门地区隐私权刑法保护及其评析

Criminal Protection and Its Analysis in the Macao Region

隐私权是维系公民自由和尊严的基本权利,自产生伊始便为各国立法者所青睐。澳门地区法律因循欧陆法系中葡萄牙法律基本精神,在隐私权刑法保护方面累积了较为丰富的理论经验。澳门地区构建了详细周密的隐私权刑法保护体系,并专门设置侵犯受保护之私人生活罪章节,能够充分发挥隐私权刑法保护所应有的一般威慑功能。同时,澳门地区刑法对隐私权采取了直接保护法律模式,其对隐私犯罪行为作出具体规定,不假其他权利之手,而是直接以隐私权之名分而保护隐私利益。另外,澳门地区隐私权刑法保护之所以成功,是和其隐私权附属刑法规范之发达密切相关的。正是由于澳门地区附属刑法的先进与成熟,才能够保证其隐私权刑法保护整体水平的提高。毋庸置疑的是,澳门地区隐私权刑法保护之上述经验及特色,也是非常值得内地刑法予以学习和借鉴的。

Privacy as the basic right has been favored by legislators of each country since its emergence. For its following the crucial spirits of Portuguese law from continental law system,the laws of Macao region accu-mulates rich experience of theories in the protection of privacy. A detailed and precise protection system for privacy is established to bring into full play the general deterrence the law should function. Meanwhile,the criminal law of the Macao Region grants a direct protection mode for privacy,which made specific provision for privacy crimes,not by employing other rights,but directly by protecting private interests under the name of privacy rights. In addition,the successful protection of the Macao Region is closely connected with standard subsidiary criminal law of privacy,so as to ensure the overall improvement of criminal law protection of priva-cy. Undoubtedly,the mainland criminal law deserves more studying from the experiences of the Macao Re-gion.