V.A. Severin

The improvement of administrative legislation reflects the ongoing changes in the public law sphere in Russia in the context of the information society. However, the legal regulation of the collection, creation, use and provision of restricted service information remains unresolved. In the course of democratic reforms and legalization of the processes of turnover of state-important information, the main attention of the legislator was paid to improving the legal regime of state secrets. Meanwhile, an analysis of the practice of state and local self-government bodies shows a high level of use of the legal institution of official secrets. The article considers the legal aspects of the legislation on official secrets and draws conclusions about the dominance of administrative law and the place of the institution of official secrets in the system of administrative law.

In the context of the information society and the formation of the digital economy, it is relevant to study the legal support for the turnover of personal data at the corporate level in order to develop proposals for improving the mechanism for processing and protecting personal data. The article analyzes the general issues that are previously studied by the administration before starting the processing of personal data, on which the decision on the readiness to work with personal data and the intensity of the use of internal corporate forces and means depends. The content of the concept of ensuring the security of personal data is disclosed. The analysis of the regulatory framework and a systematic approach to the study of the rules governing the collection, processing, storage and use of personal data in organizations allowed the author to formulate the conceptual provisions of the methodology, the content of which is complex measures of an organizational, legal and technical nature used to ensure the security of personal data in organizations. The methodology structurally reveals the content of the main corporate acts and provides recommendations for their improvement when working with personal data in the context of digitalization.

The article examines the trends and main results of the development of research in the field of legal informatics, information and digital law at the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov MSU. It is noted that the designation of Moscow University as the lead organization for scientific issues of information security of a humanitarian nature contributed to the intensification of research in the field of information law and information security, as well as the participation of the Faculty of Law from 1998 to 2010 in the implementation of MSU projects. The results of interdisciplinary legal research obtained over 25 years were introduced into the educational process of the Faculty of Law, the Higher School of Public Audit of Moscow State University and the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University in the form of new curricula and courses. An interdisciplinary approach was incorporated into the structure of the courses taught in the interfaculty master’s program “Information Legal Relations in the Innovative Economy”, opened in 2016 at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. 

In the context of the formation of a digital economy, a new branch of law is simultaneously being created — digital law, which has its own subject of legal regulation. This process cannot be ignored, since “cross-cutting technologies” in the digital economy require legal regulation and protection of information during their use. Legal scholars are increasingly debating the well-known legal structures and the possibility of their use in new conditions, for example, the use of artificial intelligence technology. Certainly, the formation of the scientific apparatus and concept of digital law requires coordination of efforts in conducting interdisciplinary scientific research.