A privacy law?

Question

Information Security

Relying on the experience of visitors to Habr, I want to find out what is really included in the concept of this law. And more precisely in the aspect of social networks. For example, if two interlocutors communicate in private messages on social networks. networks (for example, VK, or FB) - does any of them have to show this correspondence to someone else, or does the law oblige to obtain permission for this?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Electronic and other correspondence is treated in the same way as regular correspondence, using the closest analogies.
Your correspondence with a friend is a secret for a third party (hacker, social network administrator). And his actions can be interpreted as a violation of the secrecy of correspondence. But for you and for a friend - this is not a secret. Any of you legally has all the information from the correspondence and can dispose of it as he sees fit (of course, if this is not limited by something else, for example, you signed an NDA and are discussing some kind of secret project - then it will be a violation of the NDA, but not about secrecy of correspondence).

Answer 2

Recently there was a case with a journalist who published an allegedly unapproved interview with Ernst and something like the same with Posner. As far as I remember, there were no lawsuits, it just became hand-not-served. To publish dialogue or correspondence without consent is a moral violation, not an administrative one. Unless, of course, you received this correspondence illegally. But since You are one side of the correspondence, then it belongs to you a priori.

Answer 3

Legislatively, this may be prohibited if both interlocutors first agreed (in writing) that the correspondence should not be disclosed. Such correspondence, it turns out, can be disclosed only up to the moment when this agreement arose in it.
Otherwise, the question is only ethical.