Constitutional framework for the protection of personal data in Russia

Abstract

This article identifies and discloses the constitutional grounds for the protection of personal data in Russia. According to the author, such grounds appear in the form of certain constitutional rights that protect, inter alia, personal data. Here we are talking about the right to the inviolability of private life, the right to privacy of correspondence, of telephone conversations, postal, telegraph and other messages and the right to inviolability of the home. The article reveals the content of these constitutional rights in terms of protection of personal data. With the understanding of personal data as subject to the protection of these rights, a Russian model of constitutional protection of personal data can be constructed. At the same time it draws attention to the fact that the definition of the elements that make up the model, as well as the disclosure of their relationship, is only the first step in its substantive content. Refs 33.