Abstract: The subject of this research is the international regulation of ensuring confidentiality of personal data. The development of “big data” technologies made it evident that for solution of the problem of ensuring rights of an individual as a subject of personal data it is essential to coordinate efforts of interested countries pertaining to the development of effective measures of legal protection. The practice demonstrated that protection of personal data requires a universal approach, which is currently possible within the framework of regional integration that ensure harmonization of legislation through formulation of criteria suitable for the participating countries. However, their own rules in protection of personal data also have the countries of Latin America being a part of international organization the “Ibero-American Data Protection Network”, as well as the countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. This article analyzes the international documents developed by the aforementioned organizations from legal and comparative-legal perspective. Assessment is given to the achieved results and development prospect of legal regulation pertaining to collection and processing of personal data. It is concluded that the European organizations are undisputable leaders in establishment of strict control in the sphere of personal data protection, and the documents developed by them are viewed as reference. The concept of “personal data” itself also experiences transformations, acquiring a more extensive interpretation. The rules for collection and processing of personal data that are developed by the participants independently, if coordinated with the legislatively established requirements, obtain substantial significance. Strengthening of control over intergovernmental exchange of personal data is also not excluded.

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The subject of this research is the establishment of the system of dispute settlement that emerges in the relations of public or private nature within the Latin American integration union MERCOSUR. It is a known fact that the task of the modern international economic integrations is the achievement of certain success in the process of combination of the economies of the member-states, the unification of the foreign policy, collaboration of the national economies. A quite significant role belongs to the system of regulation of conflict situations that appear between the states – members of the integration, as well as between the private parties. Namely this system has to appropriately react to the stages of economic development, ensure adherence to the norms of integration and their unified interpretation. The author concludes that the detailed analysis of the international documents enacted on various stages of development of the integration union, allows following the phases of establishment of this system, determining institutional structures involved into the dispute settlement, and examining the questions of their competency based on the currently existing judicial practice.