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Many of us have been troubled by junk mail or phone calls from salespeople. We are especially angry that our personal information has been leaked (泄露).

Here comes some good news. On Dec. 28，China’s top law-making body made rules to protect personal information online and public interests (利益). Such a decision is timely and necessary. Online information safety has been a problem because of no Internet laws. Some people are making use of the Internet to damage (损害) the rights and interests of the nation and people.

Liu Yang, a bank officer in Beijing said to China Daily that he has received many messages from a school that asked whether he was interested in security (证券) classes.” I am preparing for a licensing examination, but I’d like to know how those schools could know that if the examination organizers didn’t sell my information,” he said.

The trading of personal information is not allowed in the rules. Companies and government staff who break the rules will be punished. If people find their information has been spread online, they have the right to ask websites to delete it.

The rules also ask Internet users to give their real names to service providers. Some main micro-blogging services, including Tencent Weibo and Sina Weibo, already started asking users to stop online rumors (谣言) and create a healthy online environment. But users can continue to use their Web names when posting something online.

Making laws to protect personal information and stop junk electronic information is common in other countries. Nearly 100 countries have such laws, including the US, the UK and Japan.