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Chinese Journal of International Law Advance Access originally published online on February 9, 2007
Chinese Journal of International Law 2007 6(1):157-183; doi:10.1093/chinesejil/jml061
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

DEVELOPMENTS & HISTORY

Online Privacy in China: A Survey on Information Practices of Chinese Websites

KONG Lingjie*

Correspondence: * PhD Candidate of International Law, Research Institute of International Law, Wuhan University, China (email: konglingjie80{at}yahoo.com.cn). This paper serves as part of "The Internet Society and International Law", a national key research project, headed by Professor Guo Yujun and Professor Song Lianbin of Wuhan University. The author owes sincere gratitude to the two professors for their encouragement, comment and suggestions.

This paper is a survey on the information practices of Chinese websites. Three groups of Chinese commercial websites were selected and their information practices were analysed and compared with the generally accepted principles of online information practices. Survey results indicated that Chinese websites collected a vast amount of personal data through various forms. The percentage of websites posting privacy disclosures was comparatively small. For those sites with privacy policy or discrete privacy statement, their information practices did not accord with generally accepted principles of information practices. The paper presents recommendations for China to deal with such a legal issue that makes national borders meaningless.


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