反垄断法保护个人信息的困境与出路

The Dilemma and Way out of Anti-monopoly Law to Protect Personal Information

反垄断法是否应当保护个人信息权益,是数字经济时代亟待解决的问题。针对数字平台垄断,侵害个人信息权益的问题,个人信息保护法侧重数据的合法流通及个人隐私的保护,对经营者竞争行为在个人信息保护领域带来的负效应关注不足。用户个人信息作为消费者权益的重要内容,与竞争保护也存在内在联系,反垄断法将其纳入保护适应了现实需求,符合其立法目的与功能定位。针对反垄断法与个人信息保护法之间的冲突困境,应厘清两者矛盾的症结,确认反垄断法对个人信息的间接保护原则,赋予消费者在个人信息受侵害时提起公益诉讼的权利,同时重视反垄断执法机构的审慎执法,加强机构间的合作,力求探寻个人信息保护与竞争保护的平衡点。

Whether the Anti-monopoly Law should protect the rights and interests of personal information is an urgent problem to be solved in the digital economy era.In view of the monopoly of digital platform and the infringement of the rights and interests of personal information,the Personal Information Protection Law focuses on the legal circulation of data and the protection of personal privacy,and pays insufficient attention to the negative effects brought by operators'competition acts in the field of personal information protection.As an important content of consumers'rights and interests,users'personal information is also internally related to competition protection.The Anti-Monopoly Law brings it into the protection to meet the real needs,and it is in line with its legislative purpose and functional positioning.For the conflict between the anti-monopoly law and the personal information protection law,the crux of the contradiction should be clarified,the principle of indirect protection of personal information be confirmed,the right to file public interest lawsuits when their personal information is infringed be given consumers.At the same time,great importance should be attached to the antitrust law enforcement of prudent law enforcement,cooperation between agencies be strengthened to explore the balance of personal information protection and competition protection.