‘CLOUD' TECHNOLOGIES: RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN LAWS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICE
Legal aspects of using digital technologies in the new conditions of digital economy, as well as new challenges for traditional institutions of modern law are considered in the paper. Wide practical application of modern revolutionary technologies (artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, analytical databases, “cloud computing”, self-managed systems) forms a new “digital ecosystem” to which modern law should adapt. “Cloud” computing and “cloud” services as components of the modern digital economy and technological infrastructure of the digital ecosystem have formed a new legal institution within the structure of digital services. Modern Russian laws, the EU and US laws in the area of “cloud” technologies are adapting to the capabilities of digital technologies and the needs of their broad practical use. The paper analyses features of legal regulation of “cloud” services and computing in Russian and foreign laws as well as law enforcement practice. The author comes to the conclusion that “cloud” computing and “cloud” services as new types of Internet services are able to form a civil digital turnover in the structure of the modern digital ecosystem, and the operational capabilities of these digital technologies serve as an instrument for adapting the law to the realia of the modern digital world.