ABSTRACT
Analyzing international experience of regulation of the criminal investigation actions mentioning the right to personal privacy, it is possible to emphasize some general tendencies of development of the legislation. The feature of the right to personal privacy means that a citizen "experiences" the given right. The right to privacy was considered during the Soviet period through a prism of the concept "secret". The right to personal privacy directly is connected with a legal regime of the information. There are a lot of special guarantees, but all of them are incorporated by one purpose–the creation of the legal mechanism of realization of the right to personal privacy. The right to personal privacy becomes a legal category and accordingly, gets the content, structure, and elements. Use of classical system of the content of the legal right and the analysis of the right to personal privacy allows revealing features of its legal nature.
