Personal Data and Digital Technologies: Problems of Legal Regulation

Abstract

The urgency of the research issue is due to the trends of social and economic development in the context of digitalization. Big Data has become an answer to the modern social challenges. It is the technology for processing large amounts of data, which allows you to quickly process large and diverse data, systematizing them. This raises the question of ensuring the legal protection of personal data when they are processed by these technologies. The purpose of this article is to identify the problems of legal regulation, which arise in the processing of personal data in Big Data systems. The research objectives are to determine approaches to the legal regulation of the processing of personal data and Big Data systems, identify gaps in the current legislation governing these relations, analyze project legislation, as well as to identify the main current trends of legal regulation in this field. The following methods were used in the research: general scientific methods – analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization; private and scientific formal and legal method. As a result of the research, it is concluded that the digital transformation of the development of society has put forward new requirements for the legal protection of legally protected information and personal data. The current Russian legislation does not have special legal provisions related to the processing of information using Big Data technologies. The materials of the article are of practical value for experts and scientists in the field of information processing and legal protection of personal data.