CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA IN THE 1937 CONSTITUTION OF THE UZBEK SSR
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https://doi.org/10.47390/ydif-y2026v2i17/n17Keywords:
1937 Constitution, personal data, secrecy of correspondence, constitutional guarantee, artificial intelligence, nominal guarantee, profiling, informational autonomy.Abstract
The thesis examines the Constitution of the Uzbek SSR, adopted on 14 February 1937, from the perspective of constitutional and legal guarantees for the protection of personal data. Based on an analysis of Articles 126, 127, 130, 134, and 139 of the Constitution, it is demonstrated that, for the first time in the history of Uzbek constitutional law, the secrecy of correspondence was expressly established as an independent object of legal protection. At the same time, it is argued that this provision was largely nominal in nature, since it was not formulated as a subjective right, did not define the conditions and limits of permissible restrictions, and was not supported by an effective legal protection mechanism. The thesis retrospectively applies a three-element model of guarantees comprising normative, institutional, and technological components and concludes that the 1937 Constitution contained only the normative element, which itself existed predominantly in a nominal form.
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