Legal Issues of Big Data Application in the Russian Federation

The relevance of the analyzed issues is due to the incompleteness of legal regulation by the domestic legislator of both Big Data and the conditions for its use. One of the goals of the study is to define the concept of Big Data in an extremely wide range of approaches: from the non-recognition of Big Data as a legal term to their characterization as a complex property complex. The author's definition of Big Data is suggested. The features of Big Data and their common features with other modern objects of information law are revealed. An attempt is made to distinguish information and Big Data. The problem of ensuring the state's public and private interests in the process of using Big Data is considered: from national security to the protection of personal data. The article discusses the need to reward Internet users who generate large amounts of information, the indicators of which are second only to the amount of information received from the Internet of things (IoT). This article may be useful for specialists in the field of law and economics.