PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES OF LINGUISTIC TEXT EXPERTISE

Abstract

The article raises the problem of linguistic support for the protection of privacy, as well as the protection of citizens from unauthorized online posting of personal information about them, considered as a separate vector of linguocommunicative personal security. The authors present a generalized experience of the execution of linguistic examination of the textual component of Internet pages of review sites for the presence or absence of personal information, including facts, events and circumstances of private life. In addition, the authors analyze doctors' web pages posted on review sites and selected by the method of continuous sampling. The primary task of such studies is the issue of differentiating the concepts of “personal information” and “professional information” from the standpoint of language and law, as well as the expert assessment of the concept of “private life”. Then, the authors carry out a comprehensive linguistic expert analysis in order to further qualify this information as relating to the personal or professional sphere, whether or not it is information about the facts, events and circumstances of private life. Thus, the forensic linguistic expertise of contentious texts is an important tool for detecting linguistic facts of violation of the linguistic and communicative security of a person, on the one hand, and one of the ways to ensure it, on the other.