It is illegal for universities to force screenshots. The compulsory collection of screenshots by universities violates students' privacy rights. Privacy is a kind of personality right enjoyed by natural persons, which can control their personal information, private activities and private fields that have nothing to do with others and social interests. The core of judging whether information belongs to personal privacy lies in whether citizens themselves want others to know and whether information is related to others and social interests. Such as personal diaries, physical defects, personal photos, etc. Common types of privacy mainly include personal life freedom, information privacy, personal communication privacy and personal privacy utilization.

Article 110 of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that natural persons have the right to life, body, health, name, portrait, reputation, honor, privacy and marital autonomy. Legal persons and unincorporated organizations enjoy the right of name, reputation and honor. Article 1032 Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.