On the issue of state policy in the field of personal data protection

Abstract

The article is devoted to current changes concerning the improvement of legislation in the field of personal data protection. Within the framework of the issue under study, the authors analyzed a number of legislative and subordinate initiatives in order to assess the need to adopt appropriate innovations and their subsequent implementation within the framework of law enforcement. The authors have studied in detail the provisions of draft legal acts, highlighted the issues that require additional specification. The paper considers measures of the state policy of the Russian Federation related to: 1) granting additional powers to law enforcement agencies in terms of access to information systems; 2) establishing requirements for storing information and transmitting it; 3) tightening responsibility for the leakage of personal data; 4) additional ways to ensure the security of Russian information systems, reducing their dependence on foreign services. During the consideration of this issue, the authors used general scientific and private scientific methods, in particular, such as analysis, synthesis, legal forecasting and others. The novelty of the work lies in the study of those changes that are planned to be made to regulatory legal acts in the near future, previously such provisions were not covered in detail in legal science. As a result of the conducted research, conclusions are drawn about the competent approach of the state authorities to the modernization of regulatory regulation in the field of personal data protection in the context of a serious need to ensure the highest quality protection of personal data, while the authors noted some provisions that require improvement by law-making bodies due to the fact that at the moment they are either abstract in nature or enter into force a contradiction with the existing legal norms. It is assumed that in the future, after the introduction of these changes, it will be possible to assess their effectiveness already within the framework of law enforcement.