Personal information: what you need to know about this

Everyone has personal or personal data. But not everyone knows what it is. In this article we will find out what personal data is. In addition, we will get acquainted with the law on their protection.

What is personal information?

Everyone understands this formulation in his own way. But we will start from the one that our legislation gave. The law on personal data states that personal data is nothing more than simple information (or a combination of them) about a particular physical person that can be identified. Agree, this formulation is so fuzzy that the term "personal data" can not be unequivocally interpreted. In addition, due to this very inaccuracy, abuse of information by authors and users of databases is possible. In particular, law enforcement agencies.

Not indifferent to this situation, lawyers propose to correct this concept and formulate it as follows: personal data is information about a natural person that makes it possible to identify that person. There is a minimum set of personal information that is necessary for such a procedure. First of all, it's name, year and date of birth, address (postal, home or even electronic), phone number (home or mobile) and TIN.

The same law states that the use of the above personal data is possible only for the purpose of processing, which was confirmed and formulated with the consent of the entity - their owner. Any changes to the processing goal of the treatment must be reconciled with the carrier. If this rule was violated, the notion of "protection of personal data" is applied.

The law on personal data was created with the purpose of protecting and processing personal data. In particular, it is aimed at protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of every person. Including, this law controls the fact that everyone has the right to ensure that no one interferes in his personal life . For violation of the above-mentioned law, a penalty is assumed.

Many law-abiding citizens believe that the law , first of all, created this law for themselves, as it is often violated in relation to other people, and no one is responsible for it.

Journalists and personal information

It is gratifying that such restrictions (provisions of the law on the protection of personal information) do not apply to people who are engaged in journalistic activities. That is, every journalist has the right to access personal information of any person, including the top of government. But access to it is provided exclusively for professional purposes, and finding this information is not so easy. Members of public and religious organizations, trade unions and political parties do not register a database of personal data. They freed themselves of this themselves ...

Journalists should not abuse their official position and cross the line of law, using secret, in fact, information to create a "sensation." However, the law on personal data does not indicate exactly where this fine line lies.