Right of Access to Information in the Digital Profiling System

Abstract

The article offers an analysis of the means of ensuring the right of access to information in the digital profiling system. The objective of the study is to identify the problems in the field of ensuring the right of access to information and to identify the main ways of solving them. In the study of peculiarities of this institution, special attention is given to the balance of interests between the data privacy and a right of a person to access information about himself. The study presents the author’s concept of a digital profiling system, reveals the content of this system, and describes the mechanisms of information and legal provision of the right of access to information in the digital profiling system. Among the examined aspects of the implementation of the right to access to information, the discussion points concerning the three main categories of subjects with the right to access information in the digital profiling system are highlighted. The issue of control over the information stored in the digital profiling system is given a separate place, based on the need to obtain the subject’s consent to access their data and the protection of the data from unauthorized access by third parties.