Personal Data Protection as a Basis of Digitalization

Digital technologies do not change the fundamental values, rights and freedoms enshrined in the basic law of the modern state. However, new technological challenges require the affirmation and clarification of fundamental rights in relation to new technologies. Numerous problems of digital environment are associated with ensuring the protection of personal data, which is due to insufficient legal regulation. The article deals with some new legal aspects on the personal data protection issues in the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is concluded that the legislation of the three countries develops in different ways and with different degree of development of the issue of personal data protection. There is no doubt in Russian Federation about the right to use personal data, including images, from open sources, such as social networks. The paper concludes that maintaining registers of personal data operators is an outdated practice, since in modern conditions almost all legal entities and individual entrepreneurs process personal data to some extent in the course of their activities.