International legal protection of citizens' rights to privacy in the processing of personal data

The article is devoted to the problems of legal protection of citizens ' rights to privacy, personal and family secrets in the processing of personal data in foreign countries. The problem of personal data protection in the modern world is the most urgent, because with the development of the latest information technologies and resources, new opportunities for establishing control over the individual, and even manipulating the individual, there is an increase in the number of attacks on confidential information about personal life. International legal acts are of particular importance in this area. It is in international conventions and relevant international treaties that the basic principles of legal protection of the right of citizens to privacy in the processing of personal data were laid down.