Лекция: Article 3. Principles of legal regulation of relationships in the sphere of information, information technologies and information protection

Legal regulation of relationships in the sphere of information, information technologies and information protection shall be based on the following principles:

1) freedom of search, obtaining, transmission, production and distribution of information by any legal method;

2) possibility for only federal acts to set restrictions on access to information;

3) openness of information on the activity of state authorities and local self-government bodies and free access thereto except for the cases established by federal acts;

4) equality of languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation in creation of information systems and operation thereof;

5) provision of security of the Russian Federation in creation of information systems and operation thereof and protection of the information included therein;

6) reliability of information and promptness of delivery thereof;

7) inviolability of private life, inadmissibility of collection, storage, usage and distribution of information on the private life of persons without their consent;

8) inadmissibility for normative legal acts to set any priorities of application of certain information technologies to others, unless obligatory application of certain information technologies for creation and operation of state information systems established by federal acts.