针对生物识别信息的刑法保护:现实境遇与完善路径——以四川“人脸识别案”为切入点

当前生物识别信息在我国社会中的运用呈现逐年递增的趋势.生物识别信息具备本体特殊性和社会特殊性,这决定了其具备与普通公民个人信息不同的重要性,应受到刑法的特殊保护,但我国既定刑事立法对生物识别信息并未进行任何形式的特殊保护.可运用实质解释的方法,在不违反罪刑法定原则的前提下,充分利用两高《解释》第5条中第1款第10项和第2款第4项这两个兜底条款,将"侵犯生物识别信息5条及以上"认定为"情节严重",将"侵犯生物识别信息50条及以上"认定为"情节特别严重",由此降低针对生物识别信息原本的入罪和法定刑升格的数量,最终实现对生物识别信息的特殊刑法保护.

The criminal protection about biological identification information: Current situation and perfection ways ——Taking the case of "face identification" in Sichuan as starting point

Currently the application of biological identification information in our society shows a more and more increasing tendency. Biological identification information has its own particularity and social particularity, which decides that it has an importance which is different from common personal information of citizens, so it deserves to be specially protected by criminal law. However, there is not any form of special protection about biological identification information in current criminal law of China. Substantial interpretation method could be used to sufficiently take advantage of the two miscellaneous provisions of paragraph 1, item 10 and paragraph 2, item 4 in Article 5 of "Interpretation" of Supreme People''s Court and Supreme People''s Procuratorate under the premise of obeying principle of legality. We could consider "violating 5 or more pieces of biological identification information" as "gravity of the circumstances", and consider "violating 50 or more pieces of biological identification information" as "especially serious circumstances". By this way could the original quantities of conviction and promotion of legal penalty about biological identification information decrease. Finally, the special protection of biological identification information could be achieved.