Digital Identity: Problems of Criminal Law Protection

The article discusses the problem of ensuring proper protection of an individual's digital data. Interacting online with other users, everyone leaves a digital footprint in one way or another, while forming an image of a digital personality. To gain access to various online services, you need credentials, financial information, and biometric data. The totality of such information makes it possible to identify a person in a digital environment and constitutes his digital identity. This kind of data can be the subject of digital identity theft. In addition to obtaining data about individuals, identity theft includes their use or sale, transfer to others, and further use in illegal activities. Artificial intelligence technologies have become one of the new methods used for identity theft and fraud. Deepfake technology can be used to steal personal data, just as digital identity data can be used to create a deepfake. The article concludes that in most cases the norms of the current criminal legislation can be applied to qualify the described acts. The need to focus efforts to counter identity theft and the use of deepfake technologies on a set of measures is emphasized.