Study on Controller's Compensation Liability for Default on Personal Information

  • Yang Xiaojiao
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  • Law School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074

Received date: 2014-12-17

  Revised date: 2015-01-07

  Online published: 2015-01-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] The goal of this paper is to build a mechanism on default liability of personal information controller, especially the compensation liability, and to provide a strong theoretical support for the legislation of the protection on the personal information resources, the reasonable collection and utilization on it. [Method/process] This paper adopts a series of analysis methods of literature, empirical, economic, system, normative and others .On the basis of attribute analysis on the personal information rights, starting from the relationship of contract in the collection and utilization behavior of personal information, with the composition, the imputation principle and the liability of personal information controller as the breakthrough point, this paper defines the scope of compensation, and finally puts forward the solution of default compensation standard. [Result/conclusion] Through the study, it finds that personal information resources has a typical dual attribute of property and personality rights; the relationship of collection and utilization on personal information has outstanding properties of the contract; the property rights have attribute of license fees, the default compensation the controller should pay include spiritual damages and property loss; the compensation standard should be divided into general default compensatory damages and punitive damages; the standard of compensation for spiritual damage should be propertied; the compensatory payment standard of property loss should include the whole loss; punitive damages standards should be 3-5 times as the compensatory. This paper puts forward the compensation scope of default liability, the solutions and methods of compensation standard which have strong rationality and operability.

Cite this article

Yang Xiaojiao . Study on Controller's Compensation Liability for Default on Personal Information[J]. Library and Information Service, 2015 , 59(2) : 17 -24,43 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2015.02.003

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