In the face of large-scale personal information infringement, or industry personal information security incidents, the traditional public and private law separate relief methods have deficiencies. In August 2021, China's "Personal Information Protection Law" stipulates the public interest litigation system, formally introducing the public interest litigation system into the field of personal information protection. However, in the actual operation, the existing civil public interest litigation, administrative public interest litigation and civil public interest litigation collateral to criminal proceedings have their own characteristics and application effects, which are difficult to form the joint force of personal information protection and affect the social effect of personal information protection public interest litigation system.
Based on the present situation of personal information protection, this paper demonstrates the justification and necessity of the introduction of public interest litigation into the field of personal information protection from two aspects of practical predicament and theoretical foundation, and introduces three kinds of public interest litigation modes of personal information protection explored in China's judicial practice; secondly, analyzes the relationship among the three kinds of public interest litigation modes from three aspects of system starting point, scope of application and legal effect; finally, puts forward that China should establish a public interest litigation system of personal information protection with Chinese characteristics from the aspects of exploring public interest litigation mode, logical sequence and promoting internal and external linkage to better play the governance effectiveness of public interest litigation.
In the face of large-scale personal information infringement, or industry personal information security incidents, the traditional public and private law separate relief methods have deficiencies. In August 2021, China's "Personal Information Protection Law" stipulates the public interest litigation system, formally introducing the public interest litigation system into the field of personal information protection. However, in the actual operation, the existing civil public interest litigation, administrative public interest litigation and civil public interest litigation collateral to criminal proceedings have their own characteristics and application effects, which are difficult to form the joint force of personal information protection and affect the social effect of personal information protection public interest litigation system.
Based on the present situation of personal information protection, this paper demonstrates the justification and necessity of the introduction of public interest litigation into the field of personal information protection from two aspects of practical predicament and theoretical foundation, and introduces three kinds of public interest litigation modes of personal information protection explored in China's judicial practice; secondly, analyzes the relationship among the three kinds of public interest litigation modes from three aspects of system starting point, scope of application and legal effect; finally, puts forward that China should establish a public interest litigation system of personal information protection with Chinese characteristics from the aspects of exploring public interest litigation mode, logical sequence and promoting internal and external linkage to better play the governance effectiveness of public interest litigation. In view of the deficiencies existing in the three existing public interest litigation modes, such as insufficient institutional connection, ambiguous legislation and judicature, and unclear logic sequence, this paper proposes that China should learn from the experience in the field of environmental protection, actively explore the pilot model of administrative public interest litigation collateral to civil public interest litigation in the field of personal information protection, and clarify the logical sequence of the four modes of public interest litigation for personal information protection to avoid the waste of litigation resources, supplemented by the guarantee of internal and external connection of public interest litigation, so as to establish a public interest litigation system for personal information protection with Chinese characteristics.