According to the sixth item of Article 42 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment, anyone who peeks, steals, eavesdrops or spreads others' privacy shall be detained for less than 5 days or fined for less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than 5 days 10 days, and may also be fined up to 500 yuan.
The use of cameras by employers shall be subject to the following restrictions:
1. Installation of monitoring equipment shall be submitted for approval and filing according to the quota.
2. Prophets should make it clear to employees, because using these monitoring methods will partially lose the personal dignity of employees, and if they don't make it clear, they will be suspected of voyeurism.
3. Monitoring is limited to the workplace and working hours, and the content of monitoring is limited to the company's business activities, such as the dressing room, bathroom and bathroom of the unit, which means that not all public places can install public security image systems.
4. The employing unit has strict confidentiality obligation to the personal privacy information of the monitored employees, and shall not disclose it at will.
5. Employees have the right to know about the preservation of monitoring information, and have the right to ask the employer to properly keep monitoring information and destroy it within a certain period of time.
6. Citizens enjoy equal rights, and the installed cameras should face the whole office space, not just a specific person.
legal ground
Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan for any of the following acts; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:
(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;
(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;
(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;
(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;
(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;
(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.