Legal regime of personal data of persons participating in civil proceedings

Relevance. Unlike personal data of a person, personal data of participants in civil proceedings are posted without exception in the texts of decisions on the websites of courts, voiced in video broadcasts, and published in the public domain by search aggregator sites. The article analyzes the concept and content of the legal regime of personal data of persons participating in civil proceedings in relation to the problem of their protection. The legislation on personal data and on ensuring access to information on the activities of courts in the Russian Federation are being studied, establishing the legal regime of personal data of persons participating in civil proceedings in relation to the problem of their protection.

The purpose of the study is to deepen scientific knowledge about the essence of the legal regime of personal data of participants in civil proceedings, to develop theoretical concepts and legislative proposals to increase the effectiveness of their protection.

Objectives: analyze the legislation governing the legal regime of personal data of persons participating in civil proceedings, identify legal means to ensure their protection, and identify legislative gaps that impede their proper protection.

Methodology. The research methodology is represented by general scientific (dialectical, analysis and synthesis of deduction, induction) and private scientific methods (formal-legal, formal-logical, system-analytical).

The results found expression in the formulated concept of the legal regime of personal data of participants in civil proceedings, identifying its correlation with the legal regime of personal data of individuals, as well as in proposals for improving the current norms of the Code of Civil Procedure of the Russian Federation, establishing the rules for conducting video broadcasts of court hearings, to protect personal data of the considered category of citizens.

Conclusion. The legal regime of personal data of participants in civil proceedings is a procedure for regulating public relations, expressed in a set of legal means aimed at ensuring, in the interests of the whole society, the availability of information about judicial activities, and the protection of personal data of persons participating in civil proceedings. The legal regime of personal data of participants in civil proceedings correlates with the legal regime of personal data of individuals as private and general, and therefore is special in type.

1. Proskuryakova M.I. Constitutional and legal framework for the protection of personal data in Russia. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta. Pravo = Bulletin of St. Petersburg University. Right. 2016;(2):12–27. (In Russ.)

2. Kapinus O.S. Personal data security as one of the most important objects of constitutional and legal protection. Vestnik Universiteta prokuratury Rossijskoj Federacii = Bulletin of the University of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. 2018;(6):10–15. (In Russ.)

3. Filatova M.A. Personal data as a subject of criminal encroachment magazine. Ugolovnoe pravo = Criminal law. 2021;(11):35–43. (In Russ.)

4. Altynnikova L.I. Ensuring the personal safety of judges: state and prospects. Aktual'nye problemy gumanitarnyh i estestvennyh nauk = Actual problems of the humanities and natural sciences. 2010;(10):215–217. (In Russ.)

5. Kil'deev R.R. Right to privacy and the right to data protection: problems of ratio. Vestnik Ural'skogo yuridicheskogo instituta MVD Rossii = Bulletin of the Ural Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. 2021;(2):83–88. (In Russ.)

6. Kolmykov I.P. Correlation of the right to privacy and the right to judicial protection in the context of access to personal data: finding a balance of interests. Pravo i politika = Law and policy. 2020;(5):58–67. (In Russ.)

7. Martynenko N.E. Criminal liability for disclosing information on security measures applied to judges and participants in criminal proceedings: problems of legislative regulation. Rossijskij sledovatel' = Russian investigator. 2022;(2):27–30. (In Russ.)

8. Ignat'ev A.A. On responsibility for disclosing personal data of participants in criminal proceedings. Mezhdunarodnyj zhurnal gumanitarnyh i estestvennyh nauk = International Journal of Humanities and Natural Sciences. 2022;(1-2):93–96. (In Russ.)

9. Sannikov D.V. List of information related to privacy and their classification in civil law. Permskij yuridicheskij al'manah = Perm Legal Almanac. 2023;(6):288–303. (In Russ.)

10. Novikov R.V. Legal regulation of the protection of information related to the sphere of private life of citizens in civil and personal data legislation. Ex jure. 2020;(2):64–71. (In Russ.)

11. Karapetyan A. On private, personal and family secrets in criminal proceedings. Problemy ekonomiki i yuridicheskoj praktiki = Problems of economics and legal practice. 2013;(3):34–37. (In Russ.)

12. Bikmiev R.G., Burganov R.S. Legal regulation of the safety of participants in criminal proceedings. Administrator suda = Court administrator. 2023;(4):2–6. (In Russ.)

13. Alikhadzhiyeva I.S. Criminal record as personal data and the basis of general legal restrictions. Izvestiya Yugo-Zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya: Istoriya i pravo = Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: History and Law. 2024;14(1):65–79. (In Russ.)

14. Andreev K.G. Protection of personal data of participants in legal proceedings in conditions of providing access to information on the activities of courts in the Russian Federation. Pravo i politika = Law and policy. 2022;(2):1133–1138. (In Russ.)

15. Bogdanov E.V. Information as an object of civil legal relations. Grazhdanskoe pravo = Civil law. 2018;(5):29–33. (In Russ.)

16. Sudakova O.V. Personal non-property rights aimed at ensuring the inviolability and secrecy of the personal life of citizens. Baltijskij gumanitarnyj zhurnal = Baltic Humanitarian Journal. 2020;1(30):381–384. (In Russ.)

17. Tereshchenko L.K., Tiunov O. I. Legal regime of personal data. Zhurnal rossijskogo prava =Journal of Russian Law. 2014;(12):42–49. (In Russ.)

18. Netupsky P. Judicial “anti-forgetting”. Advokatskaya gazeta = Lawyer newspaper. 2023, Мarch 21. (In Russ.)

19. Fedoseeva N.N. Public access to information on the activities of courts in the Russian Federation. Trudy NGTU im. R. E. Alekseeva = Proceedings of NSTU named after R.E. Alekseev. 2010;(4):290–296. (In Russ.)

20. Zakotyanskaya E.O. Problems of legislative regulation of participation in the court session by using the web conference system. Nauchnyj forum Garanta: pravo, buhgalterskij uchet i audit = Scientific forum of the Guarantor: law, accounting and audi. 2023;(5):25–29. (In Russ.)

21. Petrova A.R., Holodnaya M.A. Use of video conferencing in civil proceedings: potential advantages and disadvantages. Nauchnyj forum Garanta: pravo, buhgalterskij uchet i audit = Scientific forum of the Guarantor: law, accounting and audit. 2023;(1):12–19. (In Russ.)