Principles of Legal Regulation of the Use of Cloud Technologies for Personal Data Processing

Anotace: The article studies the principles of legal regulation which are formed while using cloud technologies for personal data processing. The normative legal acts of Ukraine, of the European Union, self-governing organizations that unite providers of cloud information systems which regulate relations in the field of personal data and the use of cloud technologies for the processing of these data are analyzed. The article considers some principles of legal regulation of the use of cloud technologies, in particular: transparency, legality, fairness, data minimization, “the right to forget” and data portability. The legal bases of activity of operators of personal data and operators of systems of cloud technologies are analyzed, the influence of features of cloud technologies structure on protection of personal data is researched. Proposals to the draft of the “Cloud Computing” Law of Ukraine are also presented.