In archivals work, privacy protection becomes more and more difficult because of the multiple types and extensive scope of privacy archives, the application of computer network technology, social media and value-added exploitation of archival information resource. As a new theory, Information self-determination demands that privacy protection laws and policies should be made definite, the interests of various parties be coordinated, the relationship between privacy protection and restriction be considered, and the functions of specialized agencies be established. The writer holds that “a premise, two relationships, three subjects and four guarantees” are the directions of archives privacy protection in the information self-determination theory.