中德个人信息保护路径的比较法考察

Comparative study on the path of personal information protection between China and Germany

个人隐私与个人信息均关涉人格权,德国民法采一元模式,通过一般人格权保护,对二者未加以区分。我国民法总则时代以前对二者亦未加区分,个人信息多通过隐私权加以保护,原因是个人信息与隐私难以区分。民法总则第110条和第111条将隐私与个人信息分别加以规定,改采二元模式。关于二者的区分,我国可以借鉴德国一般人格权保护领域理论中的“私密领域说”来确定。

Personal privacy and personal information are related to personality rights.German civil law adopts the"unitary system"model,and does not distinguish between them through the protection of general personality rights.There is no distinction between the two before the times of the general principles of civil law of our country.The protection of personal information is mostly remedied by the right of privacy in the specific personality right,because it is difficult to distinguish between personal information and privacy.Articles 110 and 111 of the General principles of Civil Law stipulate the privacy and personal information separately and adopt the dualistic model.As to the distinction between the two,we can draw lessons from the theory of private domain in the field of general personal right protection in Germany.