APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE CONTENT OF PERSONAL DATA AS AN OBJECT OF CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION

Pekareva Victoria Vladimirovna

In modern theoretical and practical jurisprudence, the question of achieving a balance between ensuring the security of personal data and the use of personal information in the flow of various information and manipulations with them remains difficult to answer unambiguously. In order to counteract illegal acts committed using information and communication technologies and to prevent them using general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition of reality, a study of the concept of personal data, as well as related key issues, has been conducted in scientific work. The author's representation of the essence of the definitive characteristics of the specified concept and its structural elements falling under the protection of criminal legislation is proposed.

Keywords:unauthorised access, personal data, biometric data, computer information, criminal law, identification, personal data leakage