Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol 13, No 1 (2020)

Constitutional protection of personal data public persons on the Internet

Galina Nikolaevna Komkova, Alla Victorovna Basova, Rima Andranikovna Torosyan

Abstract


The article presents the problem of constitutional protection of personal data of public persons on the Internet. The authors note that the use of the Internet is not always aimed at achieving legitimate goals, in some cases its use leads to the violation of personal human rights. Most often, the right to protect personal data of public officials and celebrities is violated on the Internet. The examples of illegal use and dissemination of personal data of public persons on the Internet, considered in the article, allowed to conclude that there are three types of offenses in the field of personal data protection of public persons in information networks. According to the results of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the protection of personal data of public persons on the Internet is still at the stage of its formation.