"PRC Criminal Law Amendment (seven)" the contents of article 253rd of the criminal law revised, stipulates that "the state organs or financial, telecommunications, transportation, education, medical and other units of staff, in violation of state regulations, the unit to provide access to the citizen individual information service in the process in the performance of duties or, sold or illegal to provide to others, if the circumstances are serious, is less than three years imprisonment or criminal detention, or be fined"; "stolen or otherwise unlawful access to the information, if the circumstances are serious, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. "" where a unit commits the crime in the preceding two paragraphs, it shall be imposed a fine of the supervisor, and directly responsible and other personnel directly responsible shall, in accordance with the money."

The Supreme People's court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the implementation of "PRC Criminal Law" of the supplementary provisions to determine charges (four): violation of article 253rd of the criminal law of the provisions specified in article first, constitutes a "sell, illegally providing personal information of citizens" violation of article 253rd of the criminal law; one of the second paragraph, constitute the "illegal access to personal information crime".