On March 26, the draft Recommendations for CSTO Member States on Elaborating General Principles of the Development of National Legislation on Creating and Using Big Data to Ensure National Security were presented at the meeting of the CSTO PA Council's Expert Advisory Board in St. Petersburg.
This draft is aimed at strengthening the logical foundations and principles that will effectively regulate the collection, storage and use of data, as well as ensure the protection of citizens' personal data.
The document emphasizes transparency, control, confidentiality and security of data, as well as compliance with the principles of fairness and non-discrimination.
"Big data processing is carried out mainly to gain profit, primarily in commercial sectors; however, as practice shows, the processed significant amounts of data, including unstructured data, contain personal data (both anonymized and unanonymized, publicly available), other information, with access restricted by the national legislation of the CSTO Member States, as well as data on information objects of critical structures," said Yuri Saranchuk, CSTO PA expert and associate professor of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
The CSTO PA Recommendations are designed to promote digital economy development and provide a sustainable environment for working with data. Taking into account international standards and regulations, the proposed Recommendations will be an important step towards international harmonization.
The presented draft aroused keen interest among the participants of the Expert Advisory Board. The CSTO PA experts called the future adoption of the Recommendations an important step to ensure data security and protect citizens' rights in the digital age.