Genesis of the Legislation System in the Field of Personal Data Protection (National Aspects)

This article examines the process of forming a legislative system for the collection, processing, and protection of personal data in connection with the development of information technologies in Ukraine. The history of the development of information resources at the end of the last and the beginning of this century is considered, as well as the transformation of information about a person into a separate field of data, which in modern conditions acquires even greater value, requires reliable protection, and special attention when improving legal regulation. The movement of data about people, i.e., the collection, processing, and transfer of their personal data, is constant, and the use of such data is a necessary condition for many relationships and technological processes. The authors have investigated that the technological basis for such rapid information progress of humanity in the field of cross-border transfer of information and personal data is a breakthrough in the computer industry (microchips), mobile communications, and free access to the World Wide Web. The article analyzes the processes in society that influenced the formation of the existing architecture of legislation in the field of personal data protection as a separate area that is constantly being studied by scientists. It is established that for science: personal data, personalized data, personal data protection, automated processing of these data, sensitive and insensitive data, electronic digital signatures, and other new personal data are separate objects of scientific research. The authors concluded that the built architecture of legislation in Ukraine in the field of personal data protection requires systemic changes: both in the hierarchical aspect (vertical) and in the codification of relevant norms (a series of laws in the horizontal), as well as in the field of powers of state bodies and control over their activities. The article employs historical, dialectical, systemic-structural, formal-logical, sociological, and comparative-legal methods of cognition. Based on the results of the conducted research, improvements to the architecture of legislation in the field of personal data and their protection in accordance with EU international conventions and the European course of Ukraine's development have been proposed.