Legal basis of media activity

The legal basis for the development of the information industry, raising it to the level of world requirements is the primary concept. This article analyses the system of international and national law, normative documents that play an important role in ensuring the activities of the media in our country. The country has enshrined in its laws the guarantee of freedom of citizens to seek, collect and disseminate information as a constitutional principle. Today, the majority of the population uses the Internet. It is worth noting that the adoption of the European Convention for the Protection of Individuals in the Automated Processing of Personal Data in 1981 paved the way for all this.