Postal workers who open, conceal or destroy mail and telegrams without permission shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention.

Whoever commits the crime of stealing property mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be convicted and given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of Article 264 of this Law.

Staff of state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units who, in violation of state regulations, sell or illegally provide citizens' personal information obtained by their own units in the course of performing their duties or providing services to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined. Whoever steals or illegally obtains the above information by other means, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each paragraph.

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Article 2 of Tort Liability Law stipulates that the scope of civil rights and interests includes the right to privacy.

According to China's national conditions and relevant foreign materials, the following acts can be classified as infringement of privacy:

1. Make public the name, portrait, address, ID number and telephone number of citizens without their permission.

2, illegal intrusion, search other people's homes, or otherwise disrupt the peace of others.

3. Illegally stalking others, monitoring others' residences, installing eavesdropping equipment, secretly photographing others' private lives, and spying on others' indoor conditions.

4. Illegally spying on others' property status or publishing their property status without others' permission.

5. Privately open other people's letters, peek at other people's diaries, spy on other people's private documents and make them public.

6. Investigate and spy on other people's social relations to make them illegal.

7, interfere with other couples' sexual life or investigation.

8. Publicize other people's extramarital sex life to the public.

9, the disclosure of personal materials of citizens or open or expand the scope of disclosure.

China People's Congress Network-People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law