“彩信”手机侵犯隐私权之法律探讨

How to Protect the Right of Privacy in MMS Times

2002年10月1日中国移动公司正式推出融合彩色图像、声音、文字于一体的"彩信"业务,即媒体短消息业务(MultimediaMessageService,"MMS")。该业务使用户能用"彩信"手机拍摄照片,通过"MMS"网络系统将照片以短消息的形式发送到其他"彩信"手机上或者发送到互联网上。信息获取和传输技术创造性的革新将人们的生活私事进一步公开化地暴露在他人面前。"彩信"手机和业务的出现对隐私权的保护提出了新的课题。通过分析"彩信"手机侵权方式的特点、性质和我国立法现状提出了一些思考。

China Mobile presents to public a new business called MMS,which sticks pictures,voices and words together.The consumers of MMS could take pictures with MMS mobilephone,then send the pictures to other consumers or internet through MMS system.With the constructive transform of information acquirement and transmission,our privacy is much more exposed than ever before.Starting with the problem of privacy tort in MMS times,the article analyses the characteristic and the quality of this new type of tort,and brings up some propositions to solve the problem.