The Right to Know and the Right to Keep Secret in the Russian Federation

Anita Soboleva; Monakhov Victor

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The Right to Know and the Right to Keep Secret in the Russian Federation

Legal Information Management. 2006. Vol. 6. No. 2. P. 120-126.

Anita Soboleva, Monakhov V.

Victor Monakhov and Anita Soboleva analyse the current development of legal standards in the area of access to information and protection of personal data in the Russian Federation. At the end of 2005 Russia ratified the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. At the same time several new laws, intended to harmonize national privacy legislation with this Convention and to define the legal status of different databases, which are being created by the state for the purposes of registration of population and identification of persons, passed the first reading in the State Duma. The article reflects the ongoing debates on the scope of the right to know and the right to keep secret in the Russian context.

Research target: Law

Priority areas: law

Language: English

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Keywords: freedom of information right to access information privacy protection of personal data

The Legitimacy of the Bolshevik Order, 1917-1918: Language Usage in Revolutionary Russian Law

Borisova T. Y. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 05.

The article describes and analyzes the legislative politics of revolutionary regimes in Russia in 1917-1918. The author aims to demonstrate the political meaning of the form of early Soviet legislation and its legitimizing effect. The revolutionary legislators often used specific language in the new laws as a vehicle of legitimacy, i.e. to make the people comply. The two main types of legal language used by the Bolsheviks can be interpreted from the perspective of different types of legitimacy. The revolutionary strategy used propagandistic legislation, written in the language of lay people, which urged them to act according to the new law. It can be seen as a request for acts of the people to legitimize the soviets. On the contrary, the traditional strategy employed old bureaucratic means of writing and distributing legislation to the local soviets. The language used by this strategy was closed to the understanding of a lay audience and implied traditions of obeying the law written in familiar legal language, which in turn implied rational/legal legitimacy. The second strategy had already become dominant after the first months of the Bolshevik revolution. This observation demonstrates that from the very beginning of their rule, Soviet leaders approached legislative policy from a technocratic point of view, which determined the further development of Soviet legal theory and practice.

Added: Jul 20, 2012

Право на неприкосновенность частной жизни. Укрепляет ли его закон о персональных данных?

Афанасьева О. В. Общественные науки и современность. 2011. № 6. С. 76-88.

The author considers historical evolution and contemporary understanding of the right to privacy, and also specially analyses the Federal Act on Personal Data (2006) in the context of its accordance with goals of the protection of human rights.

Added: Sep 23, 2012

Приватность в интернете и распространение личных данных подростками

Турканова В. И. Научные ведомости Белгородского государственного университета. Серия: Философия. Социология. Право. 2010. Т. 20(91). № 14. С. 292-295.

Added: Oct 26, 2012

Human rights issues arising in context of the free (open) software

Shcherbovich A. In bk.: Human Rights on the Internet: Legal Frames and Technological Implications. Iss. 2. M.: Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2013. P. 68-87.

In this paper we consider the issue of human rights related to the distribution and use of the free and open source software. We highlight public law aspects of the scientific and practical discussion on the free (open) software. We show the features of the regulation of this issue at all levels of Internet governance: international, national (for example, the Russian Federation) and the level of network communities.

Added: Nov 20, 2013

Соединенные Штаты Америки

Елин В. М. В кн.: Новая парадигма защиты и управления персональными данными в Российской Федерации и зарубежных странах в условиях развития систем обработки данных в сети Интернет. М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2016. Гл. 1.10.. С. 139-162.

Added: Mar 2, 2017

Big Data leads to new international data processing policies

Komarov M. M. In bk.: Mind - Multistakeholder Internet Dialog. Vol. 7: Privacy and Internet Governance. Berlin: Internet & Society Collaboratory, 2014. P. 59-60.

Response to Peter Schaar (Chairman of the European Academy For Freedom of Information and Data Protection, former German Data Commissioner) about the incompatibility of the Internet and Big Data with Data protection. It declares that technological development has overtaken the policy-making process and applications according to web 3.0 are likely to be far more effective at piecing together personal data than even traditional search engines.

Added: Jul 11, 2014

Доступ к судебным актам: проблемы и пути решения

Чаплинский А. В. Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2011. № 4. С. 77-90.

The article discusses the problems associated with providing public access to court decisions. The author analyzes the existed until 2010 and existing at the moment ways to access to the court acts. Particular attention is paid to issues relating to the list of published court decisions, ways to protect confidential information, contained in judicial decisions, as well as moment of the publication of these documents. Based on this analysis the author formulates proposals for changing the order of access to judicial decisions.

Added: Oct 23, 2012

Человек в кругу семьи. Очерки по истории частной жизни в Европе до начала Нового времени

Edited by: Ю. Л. Бессмертный М.: РГГУ, 1996.

The series of studies collected in theis book represent different approaches of their authors to the problem of privat life in the past.

Added: Oct 30, 2013

2020 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR)

Edited by: P. Calyam. IEEE, 2020.

Added: May 15, 2021

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, February 11-13, 2021

Vol. 1: ForSE. Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2021.

This book contains the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2021), which was organized and sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). ICISSP 2021 was held in cooperation with the Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação (AP2SI), ISACA Lisbon Chapter, and the Trusted Computing Group. Due to the exceptional situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, ICISSP has run entirely in remote and adopted online format, from 11 – 13 of February. The Conference Program included oral presentations (full papers and short papers) and posters, organized in different technical sessions.

Added: Apr 12, 2021

A European Perspective on Privacy and Mass Surveillance at the Crossroads

Rusinova V. Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2019. No. 87.

This article concentrates on two recent judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Chambers, on Centrum för Rättvisa v. Sweden and Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom, which expressly acknowledged that mass surveillance per se does not violate the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. These judgments have been recently referred to the Grand Chamber, thus giving hope that the approach taken in respect of the launch of mass interception of communications and metadata has a chance to be revisited. The author reveals whether this approach follows from the jurisprudence of the ECHR, how plausible the argumentation of this court is and how legalization for the bulk interception of data relates to the stance taken by the ECJ, which until that time was dealing with questions of the protection of the right to respect for private life and personal data using the general paths initially paved by the ECHR. The article discloses what precise content in terms of the protection of right to respect for private life lies behind the main findings on the compatibility of bulk interception per se with the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, namely, in which part this court has refused to examine the measures undertaken by states in compliance with Article 8 and in which parts it has strengthened (or relaxed) already inferred criteria. Finally, taking into account the current position of the ECHR at this crossroads, the article dwells on causes that influenced the decisions of its Chambers.

Added: Apr 1, 2019

Privacy and Legalization of Mass Surveillance: In Search of a Second Wind for International Human Rights Law

Rusinova V., Pereverzeva A. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2020. No. 97.

This paper revisits the traditional trade-off between privacy and security, which underpins the compatibility of general and indiscriminate mass surveillance with international human rights instruments, and extends the orthodox patterns of legal argumentation using interdisciplinary knowledge, which is able to nurture, and to be translated into, the language of International Human Rights Law. In search of new resources and a second wind for the overburdened legal concept of privacy, this research combines a positivistic legal perspective with knowledge from sociologically framed surveillance studies, political theory, behavioral economics, and computer science, and deals with the threats and responses thereto from this epistemological standpoint. The first of three threats singled out in the paper—the ‘securitization’ of the danger of terrorism—is treated through embedding the effectiveness of predictive algorithms to the proportionality test. A consensus of ‘Big Brothers’ to use mass surveillance tools as the second threat is considered using constitutional theory and the bridge of the ‘democratic society’ component included in some international human rights instruments to transpose issues of fair representation to the standard of review. The third threat is the shift of social norms towards the permissibility of being watched. Resources to cope with this challenge can be found in the complementation of an individual reading of privacy as a right and a value by a collective one, which follows a primarily socio-economic trend to consider privacy as a public good.

Added: Dec 11, 2020

Abelian automorphism groups of cubic fourfolds

Mayanskiy E. arxiv.org. math. Cornell University, 2013. No. 5150.

We list all finite abelian groups which act effectively on smooth cubic fourfolds.

Added: Nov 19, 2013

Использование временных характеристик в преподавании курса "Юридическая техника"

Тенилова Т. Л. Юридическая техника. 2009. № 3. С. 309-316.

Added: Dec 12, 2012

Конституция Российской Федерации как фактор укрепления экономического и социального правопорядка на новом этапе решения стратегических задач (к 15-летию принятия): Материалы региональной научно-практической конференции (Нижний Новгород, 12 декабря 2008 года)

Edited by: В. М. Баранов, П. Н. Панченко, А. В. Козлов Т. 1. Н. Новгород: Нижегородский филиал НИУ ВШЭ, 2009.

Added: May 24, 2012

Некоторые проблемы Конституции Российской Федерации

Лукьянова Е. А. Конституционное и муниципальное право. 2007. № 15. С. 4-9.

Added: Nov 19, 2013

Особенности правового статуса Контрольно-счетной палаты Санкт-Петербурга

Янкевич С. В. Право и экономика. 2013. № 7. С. 55-62.

Added: Sep 13, 2013

Ценности России в системе ценностей мира и контексте задач экономико-правового обеспечения их создания, накопления, сбережения, рационального использования, приумножения и приращения: Материалы всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Нижний Новгород, 22 апреля 2010 года)

Edited by: П. Н. Панченко, А. В. Козлов Т. 1. Н. Новгород: ООО "Стимул-СТ", 2010.

Added: May 24, 2012

Russian Competition law in light of the principles of ex post and ex ante

Totyev K. Y. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2014

This article is devoted to the legitimation and application of the standards of ex post and ex ante by courts and the executive authorities in the sphere of competition regulation. The postulates of ex post and ex ante are considered as legal principles. The principle of ex post is intended solely for judicial and administrative application; it has a deontological framework; it assumes that the legality of the activity of economic entities is assessed only on the basis of positive legal criteria in terms of the subjective rights violated; it is limited to a particular case. The traditional approach to the principle of ex post limits the scope of its application on the subjects and excessively expands its objects. The postulate of ex ante has a utilitarian basis which assumes the assessment of the application of relevant rules in the future. One of the main aims of the article is to refute the common view of lawyers and economists that a legislator applies principle of ex ante not being bound by principle of ex post, while it is the other way around for the courts and the executive authorities. The principle of ex ante may be applied not only in the process of the creation of new rules but also at the application stage for existing rules on economic competition. This is justified because the arguments of the courts and the executive authorities about a refusal to take into account the consequences of a decision in a particular case are not convincing.

Added: Apr 17, 2014

Кодификация законодательства: теория, практика, техника: Материалы Международной научно-практической конференции (Нижний Новгород, 25–26 сентября 2008 года)

Edited by: В. М. Баранов, Д. Краснов Н. Новгород: Нижегородская академия МВД России, 2009.

Added: May 24, 2012

Актуальные проблемы истории и права

Edited by: В. А. Лабузов Оренбург: Оренбургский государственный институт менеджмента, 2011.

Added: Apr 16, 2012

Правовое обеспечение единой государственной экологической политики Российской Федерации

Edited by: С. А. Боголюбов, Н. И. Хлуденева М.: Юстицинформ, 2011.

Added: Apr 16, 2012

Право на контрдемонстрации: угроза или индикатор уровня демократии?

Храмова Т. М. Конституционное и муниципальное право. 2012. № 7. С. 10-16.

The article is devoted to a particular form of freedom of assembly — the right to counter-demonstrate. The author underlines the value of this right as an element of democratic society, but also acknowledges the risk of violent actions among participants of opposing demonstrations. Due to this risk, the government may adopt adequate measures restricting the right to counter-demonstrate, certain types of which are analyzed in this paper.

Added: Jan 10, 2013

Legislation as a Source of Law in Late Imperial Russia

Borisova T. Y. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2012. No. 04.

This article analyzes the usage of legislation as a legal source in the Russian Empire through the phenomenon of the publication of law. The author argues that the absence of separation of executive, legislative and court powers had definite negative effects for lawmaking and enforcement. The legislative politics of Russian emperors could be analyzed using Jürgen Habermas‘ concept of ―representative publicness‖ (representative öffentlichkeit): to a large extent, the tsars considered law as both an assertion of authority and a means of governing. Their actions towards strengthening legality in the state (i.e. the compulsory publication of legislation) were in essence symbolic or theatrical. In fact, since the separation of laws from executive acts did not exist in imperial Russia, the legislation was published (or stayed unpublished) exclusively for state administrators. The conflict in conceptions of legality between state and civil actors in the second half of the nineteenth century was not of a merely political nature. The article demonstrates that there was a public demand for publication of legislation; insufficient accessibility of legal information negatively influenced social and economic development in imperial Russia.

Added: Jul 20, 2012

Философия

М.: Издательство Военного университета, 2011.

Added: Apr 13, 2012

Россия и Договор Энергетической хартии

Белый А. В. ЭКО. 2010. № 6. С. 97-114.

Development of standards of international controllability is reviewed in the article. Institutional approach is applied to development of international legal regime of Energy Charter. Definition of controllability is connected to development of international standards of dispute settlement, which are described in the article in detail. In connection with controllability, Russian interest, defense of investment in European Union and ecological investment encouragement, is reviewed in the article.

мировое управление и управляемость, Мировая экономика, международное экономическое право, энергетическая хартия, International control and controllability, International economics, international economic law, Energy Charter

Added: Oct 4, 2012

Культурные аспекты и правоприменительная практика в области прав человека в Кавказском регионе

Рябинин А. Л. Права человека в современном мире. WP18. НИУ ВШЭ, 2012. № 02.

Added: Jul 24, 2012

Наука международного частного права: французская школа бартолистов XV-XVI вв.

Гетьман-Павлова И. В. Государство и право. 2010. № 6. С. 84-92.

международное частное право; недвижимость; ; школа бартолистов; бартолисты; теория статутов; статуарная теория/

Added: Oct 1, 2012