网络环境下的知情权边界

作为当代信息社会的重要人权类型,网络环境下的知情权正日益受到社会公众的普遍关注.网络环境的出现,使得人类社会活动呈现出多元化的发展趋势,权利碰撞和冲突的可能性不断增加,而权利冲突导致了权利边界问题的提出.网络环境下的知情权是有边界的,涉及到国家机密、商业秘密和个人隐私的网络信息都不属于知情权的客体范畴.确认网络环境下的知情权边界,应坚持公共利益优先原则、技术保障原则、权利行使的合法性原则、平衡与协调原则,实现网络环境下的知情权与其他权利利益和社会公共利益的平衡与协调,最大程度地化解权利冲突.

On the Boundary of the Right to Know under the Internet Environment

As an important type of human rights in contemporary information society , the right to know under the network environment is very important to the general public. With the emergence of network, the activities of human society shows a wide range of development trends, and the right collision and conflict increase rapidly. This problem leads to the problem about the right boundary. The right to konw under the network environment has a boundary. The state secrets, commercial secrets and personal privacy do not belong to the right. We should balance and coordinate the right to know and others and interests of the public by minimalizing the right conflicts as few as possible.