1, it is illegal without the consent of others. Chatting with others belongs to others' privacy, and it is illegal to spread others' privacy privately. If it causes serious consequences, it is suspected of committing a crime. Therefore, if you want to publish the chat records with others, you need to ask others' permission.

2. Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law. Article 42 Anyone who commits one of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined for not more than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for more than 5 days 10 days, and may also be fined up to 500 yuan:

(a) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts and falsely accusing others in an attempt to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(6) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means.

2. Is it illegal to inquire about other people's privacy?

Not exactly. Privacy refers to a kind of personality right that the private life and private information secrets enjoyed by natural persons are protected according to law and are not illegally invaded, known, collected, used and made public by others. Moreover, the right subject has the right to decide to what extent others can interfere in his private life, whether to disclose his privacy to him, and the scope and extent of disclosure.