Iryna Sopilko, Andrii M. Lyseiuk, Oleksandr Diakovskyi, Bohdan Mokhonchuk, Nina Trotsiuk
The study gives definitions of personal data and related terms and indicates the goals of its protection. The author analyzed the General Data Protection Regulation, which is the basis for the legal regulation of dealings with personal data in the European Union, and also compares it with the laws of other countries of the world and Ukraine, and identifies their advantages and disadvantages. The approaches of scholars who studied certain aspects of the protection of personal data were analyzed, and based on their work valuable conclusions were drawn and the conceptual ground of the article was formed. Independently, methods for solving the problems arising in this connection were introduced, and ways of ensuring a satisfactory level of personal data protection were indicated. In this paper, personal data is considered as the element of the cybersecurity of a country, which is a part of information security, that in turn is one of the basics of national security of a state, as well as the inseparable element, without the protection of which society cannot be considered information one. The author made an in-depth analysis of the existing regulatory and legal mechanisms for ensuring an adequate level of personal data protection in Ukraine, pointed out their deficiencies, and gave suggestions for their further advancement and improvement of the current situation arising in connection with the military situation in the country due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine