Description 152-FZ "On Personal Data" with the latest changes

In any modern state, work withpersonal data of citizens is the most important component of ensuring well-being among the population. Such work is regulated by the Law 152-FZ "On Personal Data", especially important provisions of which will be considered in this article.

Personal Information

What is generally referred to as personal data? Article 3 No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data" provides the wording according to which any combination of information, directly or indirectly related to a particular individual, that is, the subject of such data, has a similar name. The collection and storage of information is handled by a special state or municipal body, called the operator. The personal data itself may be subject to automated processing, distribution, provision, blockage, destruction, depersonalization or cross-border transfer (transportation abroad).

Naturally, all the functions presented mustsomething to be ensured. That is why 152-FZ "On the protection of personal data" fixes a number of conditions and principles on which the entire system should be based.

Principles of data processing

In Article 5 of the normative actThe main ideas, conditions and principles on which the whole system of work with civil data should be based are fixed. Here, on what it is necessary to pay attention:

• legal and fair basis;
• the focus on the protection of human and civil rights and freedoms;
• processing of only those data that meet the objectives established in the law;
• compliance of the content of information with the data specified in the law;
• ensuring the accuracy of personal information;
• storage of data in strict accordance with the terms established in the contract.

Only compliance with all the principles presented will help to function and develop actively in the entire system under consideration.

On the powers of the subject of personal data

What rights, according to 152-FZ "On personalthe owner has the right to own information about himself According to the law, the subject has the opportunity to consider the data transferred, to amend them, to require the operator to clarify any information, as well as blocking or eliminating false information.The subject has the opportunity to send repeated requests to the operator, if he has suspicions of inaccurate instructions in some particular moments.

It is also worth pointing out that the data owner has the ability to obtain information about the processing of data. Such information should contain information:

• about the legal grounds and purposes of processing;
• confirmation of the fact of processing by the operator;
• about the location of the operator, his name, license, etc .;
• on the timing of information processing;
• other information that does not contradict the Law 152-FZ "On Personal Data".

According to Article 15, personal data may be processed in order to promote goods or services on the market, or for the dissemination of political agitation.

Operator Responsibilities

Powers of the owners of personal informationa lot, and the duty is only one: providing operators with accurate and complete information. In the case of the operators themselves, the opposite is true. They have a huge number of responsibilities and a small number of professional rights.

It is worth paying attention to Article 18, which fixes the main duties of operators. There it is fixed:

• timely provision to the subject of all necessary processing processes;
• providing information about one's identity (or about the organization performing the operator's duties);
• notification of the subject of the completion of processing, the provision of results;
• the performance of their professional functions in strict accordance with the provisions of 152-FZ "On the protection of personal data."

Separate groups of operator duties are fixed in subsequent articles of the law. So, we are talking about providing security, working with cars, timely repair of machinery, etc.

About categories of personal data

152-FZ consolidates several groups of personalinformation. So, the treatment can touch the person's place of residence and the most general data about his personality. Information on the national identity of a person, his worldview, political or philosophical views, health or intimate life is not permitted by law.

All the information submitted is included in thecalled a special category, the distribution of which is allowed only in exceptional cases. What are these cases? Here, in fact, everything is simple: either all the presented types of information are already available, or the subject himself agrees to the processing of such information.

What is the purpose of processing?personal information? According to the Law 152-FZ "On Personal Data", there can be quite a number of such purposes. The most common of them - medical prevention, admission to participation in public associations, the protection of life or health, and more.

About responsibility

152-FZ "On Personal Data" establisheselements of responsibility for the violation of all norms in the law. So, the victim of wrongful operator actions to the entity is entitled to compensation for moral harm. The compensation itself depends on the degree of damage to property and the losses incurred by the subject.

That operators are less likely to violate the law, the lawstrict control is established over the entire system under consideration. Such control is shown in many forms: it is the maintenance of special registers, listening, informing state institutions and much more.

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