With the popularization and development of the Internet, the personal privacy of citizens has a close relationship with the Internet, which makes the traditional right of privacy extend in the network environment, and has a special manifestation of network privacy. The Internet is a double-edged sword, which brings convenience to all of us, but also brings risks to our privacy. The right to privacy of the Internet is the personal right that arises and develops along with the internet. The infringement of network privacy exhibited by high-tech, concealment, dissemination, complexity and other characteristics, which lets us know that the protection of network privacy cannot simply and mechanically apply the means for the protection of the traditional right to privacy, but also can not rely on the legal protection of civil law and administrative law only. However, due to the hysteresis and absence of the criminal law, the right to privacy of the network can not have full and overall protection of criminal law, which is a serious threat to social stability and our individual privacy. Fortunately, these problems have begun to arouse the attention of legislators, governments, scholars, experts and citizens, and also aroused the author's interest. This paper probes into the criminal protection of the right to privacy of citizens under the Internet environment, in order to promote the criminal law to play a more active role in the protection of citizens' network privacy. In addition to the preface and conclusion, there are five parts in this article. The first part is an overview of privacy and network privacy. The author introduces the concept and development of privacy and the right to traditional privacy, studies and analyzes the concept of network privacy and its similarities and differences with traditional privacy. It emphasizes the connection and difference between personal privacy and personal information. The second part is the legal attribute of the crime of Internet privacy. The author discusses the value of protection of network privacy, analyzes the characteristics 、 causes and elements of the crime of Internet privacy, and mainly studies the subject 、 the objective aspect. The third part introduces the legislation and current situation of the Internet privacy in other countries and regions, including Macau, the United States, the European Union, Germany, Japan and so on. The fourth part analyzes China's network privacy crime history and legislative quo, which is based on the time axis, analysed the network privacy crime in China from scratch, from less to more, witnesses the progress and perfection of protection of criminal law on privacy. The fifth part is the perfection of the criminal protection of Internet privacy in our country, the author puts forward five suggestions, discusses from the criminal status of the right of privacy and network privacy, criminal law system, litigation mode, means of punishment modesty of criminal law. Keywords: The Right to Privacy, the Right of Network Privacy, the Crime of Infringing on Internet Privacy, The Amendment (IX) to the Criminal Law, the Proposal of Criminal Law Protection

随着互联网的普及与发展，公民个人隐私与网络发生了紧密的联系，使得传统隐私权在网络环境中延伸，有了网络隐私权这种特殊体现。互联网是把双刃剑，带给我们每个人便利的同时，也给我们的隐私安全带来风险。网络隐私权是伴随着互联网而产生、发展的个人权利。侵犯网络隐私的行为所表现出来的高科技性、隐蔽性、易传播性、复杂性等特征，让我们认识到对公民网络隐私权的保护不能简单套用对传统隐私权的保护手段，也不能仅仅依靠民法、行政法等法律保护手段。然而，由于法律的滞后性导致刑法缺位，网络隐私权这个新生事物无法得到全面，充分的刑法保护，这正严重威胁着社会稳定和我们每一个人的隐私安全。幸运的是，这些问题已经开始引起立法者、政府、学者专家、普通群众的重视，同样引起了笔者的兴趣。本文对互联网环境下公民隐私权刑法保护问题进行了探讨，旨在促进刑法在公民网络隐私保护方面发挥更大的积极作用。全文除去序言和结语，共有五个部分。第一部分是隐私权及网络隐私权概述。笔者介绍了隐私、传统隐私权的概念和发展历程，研究分析网络隐私权的概念以及其与传统隐私权的异同，强调了个人隐私与个人信息的联系与区别。第二部分是侵犯网络隐私犯罪的法律属性。笔者论述了网络隐私权的保护价值，分析了侵犯网络隐私犯罪的特点、成因以及构成要件，其中构成要件主要研究了犯罪主体范围和客观方面的表现形式。第三部分介绍了境外其他国家和地区关于网络隐私权的立法及现状，包括澳门地区、美国、欧盟、德国、日本等。第四部分评析了我国关于网络隐私类型犯罪的发展历程和立法现状，该部分的介绍以时间为轴，分析了我国网络隐私犯罪从无到有，从少到多的过程，见证了刑法对网络隐私保护的进步与完善。第五部分是完善我国网络隐私权的刑法保护，笔者提出了五个相关建议，从隐私权及网络隐私权的刑法地位，此类型犯罪的刑法体系、诉讼模式、处罚手段，以及坚持刑法谦抑性等五个方面展开了论述。关键词：隐私权，网络隐私权，侵犯网络隐私犯罪，《刑法修正案(九)》，刑法保护建议