Professional secrecy in the system of criminal procedural guarantees for the protection of information about a person’s private life

The paper investigates the problem associated with the protection of information about the private life of a person in the process of proving in criminal cases. Attention is drawn to the fact that the investigation of criminal activity is often associated with interference in a person's personal life. Examples are given when the received confidential data in the framework of pretrial proceedings are not kept secret from third parties. This causes harm to individual participants in the criminal process. It is concluded that the current situation is due to shortcomings of the legislation. Intersectoral regulation of these issues cannot be considered optimal. An analysis of the relevant norms of law, existing social relations, made it possible to determine ways to solve the problem. The author formulates specific proposals aimed at optimizing the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation.