Features of the institute of personal data as an element of the system of law

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the institute of personal data in the Russian system of law, its position within the field of information law, to identify the features of the institute as a structural element of the system. The study reflects the main theoretical approaches in the definition and correlation of such concepts as “system of law”, “legal system”, “system of legislation”, “structure of the system of law”. The connection of the institute of personal data with such concepts as privacy, the secret of private life. The article notes about modern understanding of the branches of law, their elements, and the position of the institute of personal data in it. The institute also can be called as mixed or “interbranchial”, material and procedural at the same time, special, regulatory and protective and consisting of norms of various branches of law. The paper concludes about the theoretical possibility of applying methods and types of legal regulation from the civil law to the regulation of personal data, as well as the conclusion about the permissibility of the author's approach in structuring elements of new branches of law.