Criminal legal characteristics of crimes related to disclosure of information about citizens

Introduction. The current trend in the development of the information society is the growing interest in personalised information, especially personal data. This interest is due to the automation of information processing and the development of data processing centres, which generate huge amounts of information, known as "big data", which in turn are susceptible to cyber-attacks and as a result, there has been another upsurge in the illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private life of an individual, including personal data and their free dissemination on the Internet, using "piercing" bots. The growth of crimes related to the illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private life of a person, including personal data, allowed the author to analyse the current practice and to propose his algorithm for the qualification of such acts.