Article 2. Basic concepts used in the present Federal Act

The following basic concepts shall be used in the present Federal Act:

1) information – knowledge (messages, data) regardless of the form of presentation;

2) information technologies – processes, methods of search, collection, storage, processing, supply, distribution of information and methods of carrying out of these processes and methods;

3) information system – the aggregate of the information included in the data base and information technologies and technical devices ensuring processing thereof;

4) information-telecommunication network – technological system intended for transmission of information on the communication lines, access to which is provided by means of computer equipment;

5) possessor of information – person who created independently information or obtained, on the basis of a law or contract, a right to permit or restrict access to the information determined according to some signs;

6) access to information – possibility of obtaining of information and usage thereof;

7) confidentiality of information – a requirement not to transmit certain information to the third parties without consent of the possessor, which is obligatory for the person who got access thereto;

8) delivery of information – actions directed to obtaining of information by a certain range of persons or transmission thereof to a certain range of persons;

9) distribution of information – actions directed to obtaining of information by an indefinite range of persons or transmission thereof to an indefinite range of persons;

10) electronic message – information transmitted or obtained by the user of an information-telecommunication network;

11) documented information – information with requisites making it possible to determine this information and fixed on a material carrier by means of documenting, or the material carrier in the legally established cases;

12) operator of information network – citizen or legal entity carrying out the activities on operation of the information system, including processing of the information included in the data base.