NON-JUDICIAL FORMS OF PROTECTION OF INFORMATION RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALSAND THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF THEIR ADAPTATION TO THE STANDARDS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2195/2021/4.119-7Keywords:
European Union, information rights, alternative dispute resolution mechanism, the supervisory authority in the field of access to public information and protection of personal data, non-judicial protection of information rights, private person, complaint on violation of information rights.Abstract
The article examines the methods and procedures for the protection of the information rights of individuals by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, and by the executive and local authorities; identifies prospects for expanding alternative information disputes resolution involving citizens and legal entities based on the implementation of the European Union standards in the scope of legal regulation.
The aim of this article is to conduct research about the features of non-judicial forms of protection of information rights of individuals, to identify the prospects of introducing an independent supervisory authority in Ukraine in the field of access to public information and personal data protection as the main institutions of pre-trial settlement of information disputes.
During the preparation of the article, general scientific methods of cognition were used: dialectical, system-structural, formal-logical, as well as special methods, inter alia, historical, comparative-legal, sociological.
At the present time, in Ukraine, this is proven that the main form of non-judicial protection of information rights of individuals is to lodge a complaint about the violation of the relevant category of rights to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. At the same time, the reasons for the low efficiency of the implementation of such form of protection of information rights as filing a complaint to the head of the entity or the entity in the activities of which the violation was committed or to a higher authority or an official. The necessity of establishing an independent supervisory authority in Ukraine in the field of ensuring access to public information and protection of personal data is substantiated, taking into account the experience of the European Union member states as the main institution of pre-trial settlement of information disputes. The main world models of these bodies are described, their advantages and disadvantages are analyzed in view of the prospects of improving the mechanism of alternative resolution of information disputes related to the protection of information rights of individuals.
The conclusions set out the main provisions of the research, formulate further directions of research on the implementation of non-judicial forms of protection of information rights of individuals, outline vectors of implementation of the European Union's experience in establishing national supervisory authorities in this scope.
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