关键词: 个人信息, 个人信息保护, 公益诉讼, 民事公益诉讼, 起诉主体

Abstract: The public interest litigation for the protection of personal information is a new system added by the Personal Information Protection Law. Yet，the abstract wording of the provisions of the system has led to significantly different interpretations of the body of prosecution，concerning the sequence of litigation parties and the definition of litigation parties. This directly affects the application of the system. The understanding of the plaintiff entities in public interest lawsuits regarding personal information protection cannot be separated from the value concepts of public interest litigation system. These concepts go through the entire establishment of public interest litigation system and define its basic framework. The public interest litigation system is based on the concept of protecting public interests，which entails that public interest litigation for protecting personal information can only be civil public interest litigation. Under the mechanism of civil public interest litigation，the order of priority for the plaintiffs in public interest lawsuits for personal information protection should be as follows：The procuratorial units should be placed at the bottom level，while consumer organizations and the organizations designated by the national cyberspace administration departments are parallel in relationship， and they are specifically responsible for prosecuting cases in different fields. The organizations are generally professional non-governmental organizations that have been engaged in personal information protection for a long time.

Key words: personal information, protection of personal information, public interest litigation, civil public interest litigation, body of litigation