Citizen's Digital Profile. Legal Aspects and Current Practice in Russia

Currently, in Russia, as in other countries, various projects in the sphere of digital government are being considered and implemented. Assessing the prospects for further way on improving the quality and efficiency of providing public digital services, the concept of the citizen's digital profile is consistently mentioned as a universal tool that will allow a citizen to effectively manage personal data or records accumulated in the public sector and exchange them with the state, organizations and other individuals. A key element of such a digital profile should be a digital consent system designed to transfer data from state registers to other persons in order to receive services from them. Thus, a kind of digital trust environment should be formed between the participants of digital interaction. The digital profile in terms of its infrastructure will have to be based on existing IT solutions such as the Russian National portal of public services and the National unified identification and authentication system. The suggested study proposes to evaluate and analyze the legal aspects of the citizen's digital profile project proposed by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russia in the context of compliance with current legislation and practice, as well as international practice of implementing similar solutions and projects.