SOCIAL NECESSITY OF ESTABLISHING CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR VIOLATION OF LEGISLATION ON PERSONAL DATA

Abstract

In this article, the author highlights the issue of personal data protection as one of the most important and relevant topics in today’s digital society. It is emphasized that the rapid development of information and communication technologies poses serious threats to human privacy, in particular, the security of personal data. Electronic documents, digital platforms, and databases on the Internet are expanding the possibilities of processing, distributing, modifying, and illegally using citizens’ personal data. The author, revealing the content of the concept of personal data, shows that the processes of their collection, storage, distribution, and destruction cover not only civil law and administrative relations, but also the criminal law sphere. It is especially noted that today there is an increase in cases of cyber fraud, extortion, forgery of identity, and leakage of personal data. It is also noted that the illegal collection, systematization, storage, modification, use, transfer, dissemination, transmission, depersonalization, and destruction of personal data, as well as the use of information technologies, including the Internet, can pose a serious threat to the rights of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan. At the same time, it is noted that the processing of personal data should be carried out only in databases registered in the prescribed manner in the state register, as well as on technical means located on the territory of Uzbekistan. Non-compliance with these requirements may entail liability. The author also substantiates the social necessity of establishing criminal liability for violation of legislation on personal data.