Personal Data Protection and Privacy Issues in Robotics

Student: Safiullina Lidiia

Educational Programme: Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This master paper consists of two chapters. The first chapter evaluates the influence of robotization on private life and examines the legal means of protection available to the individual person using robots. The second chapter analyzes the possibility to protect the rights of the user of personal and healthcare robots on confidentiality of information about the user under the personal data legal protection. In particular, the master paper examines the possibility to qualify the information collected about the user by personal and healthcare robots as personal data with special regard to the current judicial practice, "broad" and "thin" approach to the personal data definition in Russian legal system. The corresponding conclusions are made.

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