数字时代元数据的安全问题及法律应对

Security Issues and Legal Responses of Metadata in the Digital Age

数字时代,随着收集和分析数据技术的进步,数据汇聚日益便利,非主信息内容的元数据能推导出的信息越来越多,元数据也变得越来越敏感,对国家安全、个人权利和行政执法产生了重大影响,急需通过相关立法来规范对元数据的管理和使用。通过分析元数据对国家安全的意义、对执法机构的影响以及与个人权利的直接关系,明确了尽快建立元数据法律保护的必要性,总结出从三方面进行法律保护的应对方法:通过立法监控和保护涉及国家秘密的元数据,将元数据纳入数据分类分级管理和保护制度,规范对元数据的执法行动,以期为元数据法律保护提供借鉴。

In the digital age,with the progress of data collection and analysis technology and the increasing convenience of data aggregation,more and more information can be derived from non-main information content,and metadata has become progressively sensitive,which has a significant impact on national security,individual rights and administrative law enforcement.It is urgent to standardize the management and use of metadata through relevant legislation.By analyzing the significance of metadata to national security,its impact on law enforcement agencies and its direct relationship with individual rights,this paper clarifies the necessity and urgency of establishing legal protection for metadata,and then summarizes the countermeasures of legal protection from three aspects:adopting legislation to monitor and protect metadata involving state secrets,incorporating metadata into the management and protection system of data classification and hierarchy,and regulating law enforcement actions on metadata,with a view to providing references for the legal protection of metadata.