Is it illegal for the hotel to provide video surveillance to others without the consent of the public security department?

Under normal circumstances, it is not illegal, because the monitoring of the hotel belongs to private property and the public security organs cannot negotiate. However, once the surveillance video involves personal privacy and is used, it is illegal and infringes on citizens' personal privacy.

Legal analysis

The hotel provides video information to others without the permission of the public security department. If it does not involve the disclosure of citizens' personal information, it is generally not illegal, but if it involves the disclosure of citizens' information and illegal acts, it violates citizens' personal privacy. According to relevant laws and regulations, hotel staff who provide video surveillance information inside the hotel to others without authorization will not only face fines, but also be investigated for criminal responsibility if they constitute a crime. No unit or individual may buy or sell or illegally use or disseminate the obtained information; Use the obtained information to infringe upon the privacy or other legitimate rights and interests of others; Providing, copying, reproducing or deleting, hiding or destroying information obtained without authorization. Anyone who buys, sells, illegally uses or disseminates the collected information or provides, copies, reprints or deletes, conceals or destroys the collected information without authorization shall be fined 30,000 yuan by the public security organ and 1 10,000 yuan by the individual; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income, and impose a fine of three times the illegal income; If losses are caused to others, compensation shall be made according to law; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code

Article 1032 Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.

Article 103 Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts: (1) Interfere with the private life and peace of life of others by means of telephone, short messages, instant messaging tools, e-mails, leaflets, etc. ; (2) Entering, taking photos or peeping into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms; (3) Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping or revealing other people's private activities; (4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies; (5) handling other people's private information; (6) Infringe upon the privacy of others in other ways.