Protection of the Right to Privacy in the Context of Digital Transformation of Society

Introduction. Nowadays, protection of the human rights in the open digital environment is becoming an important objective within ensuring personal security of citizens. The confidentiality of private life and personal data may be under threat. Therefore, the duty of the state is to maintain a balance between the personal interests of citizens, public benefits and powers of public authorities, which can be achieved by improving the legislation on processing the personal data and creating in the Russian segment of the Internet a flexible quickly adjustable to new challenges cybersecurity system. The aim of the study is to identify the threats and risks the usage of digital technologies has to the unconstrained implementation of the person's right to privacy, as well as to propose the solutions to the problems of privacy protection in the context of the digital transformation of society.

Materials and Methods. The research was conducted using the general philosophical method of dialectical cognition of objective reality, as well as the general scientific and specific scientific methods: logical, dogmatic legal, comparative legal, system-structural and others.

Results. It has been found that protection of the information space of the Russian Federation is a crucial element of the national security ensuring protection of the interests of citizens and social structures. It has been proved that digital transformation of society induces the need to adopt a number of measures for protection and ensuring the natural rights of a person. The problems and threats revealed in the digital environment indicate insufficiency of the efforts on improvement of the Russian Federation legislation and creation of the additional divisions in the law enforcement agencies. A comprehensive approach to protection of citizens’ rights to privacy is required. It has been proposed to develop and enshrine at the legislative level the new principles of personal data processing.

Discussion and Conclusion. The issues of protecting citizens’ rights to privacy in the context of digitalization require close attention from the state and society. It would be expedient to accelerate the process of improving the legal regulation of these social relationships for creating a secure digital environment. The theoretical provisions formulated in the article can be used in further research on this topic.

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