Xinhua News Agency "China Net" reporter Feng Guodong Liao Jun Jun Chen
Recently, some colleges and universities disclosed personal information such as student ID number and bank card number when posting scholarships and subsidies for poor students on their websites. This practice has aroused social concern. Some people worry that if this information is used by criminals, it will expose college students to the risk of telecommunication network fraud. In the Internet age, how to protect the personal information security that everyone cares about?
The ID numbers of teachers and students in many schools were "exposed"
On June 5438+ 10 this year, five graduate students from the School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University of Light Industry, majoring in business administration, accounting, agriculture and regional development, and tourism management, won 20 17 national scholarship for graduate students. The school published the approval form for half a month on its website. In the "Basic Information" column of the approval form, in addition to the information such as the name, date of birth and student number of the scholarship graduate student, there is also the student's personal ID number. The publicity information is so detailed that it has attracted the attention of the outside world.
17, Wuhan University of Light Industry quietly deleted these public information including student ID numbers from the website. The reporter's investigation found that it is not only Hubei universities that disclose national scholarships and bursaries and disclose students' personal identity information.
Changsha Medical College showed the complete ID numbers and bank card numbers of 109 poor college students when publicizing the two initial evaluation lists of national grants and national inspirational scholarships. The deadline for the publication of the two lists is 20 16 10. However, after the expiration of the publicity period, it continued to be publicized for more than a year.
Official website, School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hunan Normal University, published the recommended list of 20 14 scholarships, which included the ID numbers and bank card numbers of 88 students. After the end of the publicity period of 20 14, 12 and 2 1, this information has been published continuously for nearly three years.
On the 22nd, some media reported that official website, the Education Department of Jinxian County, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, also disclosed personal privacy information. In 20 17 alone, the complete ID numbers of 347 teachers and students were made public. This information comes from poor teachers, students assisted by the Keiko Project of the Central Lottery Public Welfare Fund, and so on.
School involved: it is really inappropriate, but it is not illegal.
The relevant person in charge of the teacher of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Wuhan University of Light Industry responded: "There are two main reasons for the school to withdraw this publicity: First, the publicity period has ended and it was withdrawn according to the work requirements; Second, it has aroused great concern from the society. The school has asked graduate schools and schools of economics and management to pay attention to protecting students' personal information. "
According to Article 19 of the National Identity Card Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) (latest revision), if the staff of state organs or financial, educational, medical and other units disclose the personal information of citizens recorded in national identity cards obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; If the case does not constitute a crime, it shall be detained by the public security organ from 10 to 15 and fined 5000 yuan. If there are illegal gains, the illegal gains shall be confiscated.
Is it illegal to include information such as student ID number in publicity? Regarding this issue, the school of Wuhan University of Light Industry believes that the practice is indeed inappropriate, but it does not violate relevant laws. The relevant person in charge of the school said that the original intention of publicity is to ensure the fairness and justice of the national scholarship, because this scholarship involves the interests of every applicant and student group. Because of this, in order to better accept the supervision of all teachers and students, I inadvertently revealed information such as ID number.
In the view of Wuhan University of Light Industry, "disclosure" and "disclosure" are two completely different behaviors, one for the needs of collective interests and the other for illegal personal interests, which are essentially different. The provisions of the relevant laws are mainly aimed at the illegal acts of some internal personnel who deliberately disclose citizens' personal information in order to obtain illegal income or other illegal purposes. The school's practice did not obviously violate laws and regulations.
How to add a "security lock" to personal information
Personal information protection has become an important keyword in the Internet age. Around personal information, new social hot issues such as human flesh search, property publicity and telecommunication network fraud have emerged. In the Internet age, almost everyone wants to protect their personal information. How to add a "security lock" to personal information?
Li Mu, a lawyer of Shanghai Jianwei Law Firm, pointed out that the disclosure of personal information should be based on the protection of citizens' information security. On the one hand, improve the supporting laws and regulations for the protection of citizens' personal information in information disclosure, and establish a list of matters that citizens can disclose and a list of restrictions on information disclosure; On the other hand, improve the information disclosure review mechanism involving citizens' personal information, standardize the information disclosure procedures, limit power and prevent willfulness.
Li Mu said that personal information should be protected by law, which has been recognized worldwide. However, different countries have formulated different ways and means of protection in order to seek a balance between protecting personal information and promoting information enjoyment. In China, due to the frequent incidents of personal information disclosure in recent years, it has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life and urgently needs to be solved from the legislative level.
The National Student Financial Aid Management Center 2 1 issued an early warning to all student financial aid workers, demanding to protect students' personal information and privacy, so as to make the financial aid work "more compliant, more caring and warmer". It is strictly forbidden to disclose "personal sensitive information", and it should be strictly implemented in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations of the state on the protection of personal information. Personal sensitive information such as student's ID number, home address, telephone number and date of birth cannot be made public during the evaluation of scholarships.
At the same time, the National Student Financial Assistance Management Center requires that students should not be allowed to complain and have difficulties with each other in public when evaluating their family economic situation; Publicity of student assistance shall not involve students' personal and family privacy; When promoting students' inspirational models, they should obtain the consent of the students themselves; We encourage the use of implicit subsidies when allocating subsidized projects.
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A number of new regulations will be implemented in June to strengthen the protection of citizens' personal information.