Identification of subjects in digital space: several legal problems

The article reveals the concepts of “identification of subjects”, “digital space”, discusses the main legal acts regulating identification processes. The activity of people on the Internet, social networks, instant messengers and other modern forms of virtual activity raises the problem of identifying people as users who must have their own identity, which does not coincide with any other subjects. In this regard, the article notes that there are problems that need to be resolved. These are such problems as the complexity of the identification procedure, the non-possibility of subsequent data management, which constitute the identification process, the need to remember passwords and other necessary data, the lack of trust between the subjects of the identification process. The domestic legislator is not in a hurry with the solution of the problems noted, but the way out of this situation is seen in the soonest legal regulation of the new information technology - digital authentication.