Recently, some netizens broke the news that Zhang Jie reported his mobile phone number at a concert, which resulted in the suffering of innocent amateurs. This caused controversy among many netizens and related topics became hot searches. The cause of the incident was that Zhang

So, if the account owner’s privacy is violated, does the leaking party need to bear legal responsibility? Previously, there was a similar precedent in the film and television industry. In the movie "The Man Caught by the Light", the scene where the leading actors Huang Bo and Wang Luodan met was shot in front of the plaintiff Ms. Cao's store and the Spring City Flower Shop. The phone on the sign of Ms. Cao's store appears in two movie scenes totaling 40 seconds. After the movie

was released, a large number of viewers contacted Ms. Cao through phone calls, text messages, etc. Ms. Cao believed that the defendant company was negligent during the filming process, causing her phone number to be leaked and violating her right to privacy, so she sued the producer to the People's Court of Xiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province. According to the judgment, "The Man Caught by Light" was produced by Beijing Jingxi Culture and Tourism Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Jingxi Culture") and Beijing Hezhongruike Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing Hezhong Ruike"), because it did not perform technical processing of the client's mobile phone number in the video, was sentenced to infringe on personal privacy and compensate the client 30,000 yuan.

In 2018, the real mobile phone number of citizen Zhang appeared in the plot of the TV series "The Evolution of Love", which resulted in Zhang constantly receiving harassing calls and text messages. Zhang sued the TV series producers Xinli Company and iQiyi Company to the court, demanding that the two companies stop the infringement, eliminate the impact, apologize, and compensate for mental damage consolation and rights protection expenses totaling more than 210,000 yuan. At the beginning of 2019, the Beijing Haidian District Court concluded the case and finally ruled that Xinli Company should compensate Zhang 35,000 yuan.

In 2019, a popular online drama publicly used the mobile phone number purchased by Huang’s real name, which resulted in Huang being frequently harassed by unknown phone calls. The Beijing Internet Court ruled in the first instance that the mobile phone number involved in the case was improperly disclosed by the online drama involved, which caused the intrusion on the peace of Huang's private life and constituted an infringement of Huang's privacy rights, and ordered him to pay compensation of 4,000 yuan.

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Source: Jinguan News