Tsomenko A. Administrative and legal protection of personal data of citizens by the subjects of public administration

This dissertation is aimed at solving a complex of theoretical and practical problems related to the administrative and legal protection of personal data of citizens by the subjects of public administration. The dissertation is one of the first in the domestic administrative and legal science to study a set of theoretical and practical problems of administrative and legal protection of personal data of citizens by the subjects of public administration. The analysis of the genesis of legal protection of personal data allowed us to identify four stages of development and establishment of the system of legal protection of personal data in Europe and Ukraine. It is emphasized that the analysis of theoretical approaches to understanding the concept of personal data allows us defining the notion of “personal data of citizens” as any information or data, in an objectified form, related to the data subject (an individual) that is subject to identification. Personal data of citizens have the following characteristics: informational content of personal data i.e., information or data on a specific individual; identifying properties i.e., they allow identifying a specific individual; defined form of record in a certain personal data source (medium); inexhaustibility of data; and legal form of personal data, which starts from a number of actions related to their processing and protection.