Systemic Issues of Legal Regulation for Information Aggregator Operation

Abstract

A scientific article analyzes a legal status of modern subject matter of civil law—an information aggregator the role hereof grows with the development of information and communication technologies and affects strongly the world economy in general. The article reveals the issues of legal regulation of relations with participation hereof determined by special nature of subject matter of legal impact, its peculiarities and particular methods of regulation as a legal consequence. The combination of non-specific parts of civil legal relations arising with the participation of an information aggregator predetermined the need to employ special research methods, which suggests a systematic methodological approach embracing general scientific and special legal methods of cognition. We study scientific standpoints to the issue to determining a subject matter of legal relations evolving in using the electronic generator platform and conclude on necessary consideration of the subject matter in total (information, technology and a transmitting device). We investigate the issues of digital identification of legal relations’ subjects with the participation of the information aggregator. We substantiate a viewpoint to required refusal of personal identification by submitting identity documents and transition to biometric-data identification. We review national and international legislation. We make a conclusion on legislative consolidation of the rules for information aggregator identification and suggest a system of legal measures aimed at identification of persons working under nicknames. The article points out at necessary application of both private-law and public-law methods of regulation when establishing a system hereof, since this is an integrated object that requires an interdisciplinary approach. We draw the conclusions on required introduction of a state system for IP address registration. Also, we prove the need to establish a system of limited exercise of the information aggregator rights by means of prohibiting an implementation of interaction with an unidentified person on the Internet and to disclose information on the parties to the counteractants when making a contract.