Open AccessDefinition of the ‘right of an individual to information regarding himself’
Author(s) -
С. П. Телешев
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
naukovij vìsnik užgorodsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu. serìâ pravo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-6153
pISSN - 2307-3322
DOI - 10.24144/2307-3322.2021.66.18
Subject(s) - legislation , terminology , political science , reflexive pronoun , fundamental rights , right to know , law , china , law and economics , public relations , sociology , human rights , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics
The rapid development of the information society, a certain dependence of people on the modern way of life and not keeping up with the constantly emerging new types of actual legal relations, outdated rules of law, the legal science in civil law regulation of information rights requires some changes, improvements, adding of the new terminology.One of these types of “new” information rights is the right of an individual to information regarding himself.In this research, the author analyzes the current legislation of Ukraine on the existing rights of individuals to information regarding themselves, does the comparative analysis of the conceptual legal framework of US, Canada, China, Australia and South Africa with national standards for the implementation and protection of individuals’ rights to information regarding themselves.The author defines a universal and generalizing concept of the right of an individual to information regarding himself, its characteristics as a subjective right that meet modern challenges and current requirements of legal science, form an idea of the content of this right, and draw conclusions about the need for careful and in-depth studying of this type of right and further implementation it in the legislation.