Abstract:  Citizens’ information equity, a concept derived from social equity and justice, is an important social interest enjoyed by citizens in acquiring and processing information, including equal access to information, equal use and fair distribution of information and information freedom. Due to various factors such as the competence differences of social entities in the digital life, the explicit discrimination of smart technologies and government and market’s reliance on digital technologies in the decision-making process, citizens’ information imbalance has been increasingly prominent, thus calling for urgent “technology-law” dual regulation. In response to the deficiencies in current legal protection of information equity, such as lack of targeted laws and regulations, the neglect of the appeal for “Digital Human Rights”, deviation from fairness, causes of imbalance and lack of feasible countermeasures, we can take the following measures for improvement. From the macro perspective, we should adhere to the principles of equal protection, preferential protection, timely protection and reasonable protection, and adopt the “right-setting protection” as the main protection mode. From the micro aspect, we should construct a system of rights, which can combine “soft-hard”, “point-surface”, “public-private” and “right-justice” dimensions, and enrich legal relief tools in terms of legal responsibility and judicial remedy.

Key words: information equity, justice in distribution, “digital human rights”, information rights