Ting Huang, Honglei Zhai

Ting Huang

June 30, 2026

Intelligent communication, Data privacy, Journalism and communication ethics, Media responsibility, Ethical responsibility community.

The rapid iteration of intelligent technology is deeply reshaping the ecological landscape of news communication. Artificial intelligence has evolved from a tool for enhancing efficiency to an architectural force that reshapes the media ecosystem, systematically changing the content production chain and the structure of communication power. While technology empowers the improvement of communication efficiency, structural contradictions such as the generative information privacy gap, the dissolution of privacy boundaries, and the solidification of algorithmic bias have become increasingly prominent, posing severe challenges to the traditional news ethics system. From the intersectional perspective of news communication ethics and digital ethics, this paper systematically analyzes the ethical crises faced by data privacy in the intelligent media environment, such as "having privacy without secrecy". It explores the generation mechanism of ethical dilemmas from four dimensions: the limitations of traditional ethical norms, the expansion of technological rationality, the penetration of capital logic, and the ambiguity of responsibility subjects. Finally, this paper proposes countermeasures such as returning to the core of humanism, building an ethical responsibility community, embedding algorithmic value orientation, and implementing a graded privacy protection path. The aim is to construct a new framework for privacy protection that adapts to the era of intelligent communication and promotes the benevolent development of media technology.

© 2026, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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