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In modern society, methods of identification of persons on the basis of their physical, biological or behavioral characteristics are actively developing. European countries are in the process of developing a holistic doctrine on biometric control and are clarifying their position on situations where biometric data are used by individuals.From the position of information law, the paper presents a new author’s approach to the problem of processing biometric data and genetic information. The division of biometrics into “trace” and “non-trace” is losing its meaning. A new classification of biometrics into digital and analog is proposed.Biometric access control should not become a routine phenomenon in the framework of the organization of the company and without any reason to replace other existing types of control. The interested person can be entrusted with the storage of their own biometric data to reduce the risks of leakage and the consequences of exposure to them. Biometric data must be stored on the company’s servers in encrypted form, which makes it impossible to use them without the consent of the person concerned.Biometric data should be protected by a special legal regime. The analysis of the European and Russian legislation made it possible to draw the following conclusions: biometric data is a special type of personal data, a special legal regime and regulation should be established; digital biometrics needs special legal regulation, since it is the most vulnerable type; genetic information does not fully correspond to the concept of personal data, as it can relate to an unlimited number of persons. This determines the need to develop a special law “on genetic information”.

The principles of emerging legislation devoted to the processing of genetic information take their place among the informal legal phenomena. The identification of these principles is the task of the legal science and, in particular, of data protection law. From the point of view of data protection law, the article presents a new author’s approach to the construction of the system of principles of the legal regulation of genetic information. These principles include: the principle of responsibility to future generations; the principle of freedom of scientific research; the principle of protection of human dignity; the principle of privacy. Genome protection is aimed not only at preserving the life and health of a particular person, but also at preserving the genome of his or her descendants. This makes it possible to consider the genome as a heritage of mankind. Freedom of scientific research in the field of genetics implies the freedom to study genetic information, but not the freedom to use it. With regard to scientific research of genetic information of representatives of a particular population, in addition to individual consent to the processing of such information, allowance is made for the consent expressed through the legitimate representatives of the groups or peoples concerned. The ideas of extended and open consent of the person to the processing of genetic information are analyzed. The conclusion is made about the necessity of fixing the system of principles of legal regulation in the field of genetic information processing in a special law «On genetic information.»

The relevance of the study is reasoned by the objective necessity in the education of students, focused on humanistic values and able to engage in dialogue with society. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the students' tolerant behavior formation mechanisms. The guiding principle of investigation is the event-related principle, providing students' inclusion in the set of events that encourage awareness of the sense of tolerance and aimed at creating of capacity for tolerant behavior. The study involved 500 teachers, 500 students, which revealed the criteria (knowledge based, motivational and activity-based) and gave the characteristic to the levels of students' tolerant behavior (optimal, efficient and acceptable). The main results of the study is to develop the mechanisms for formation of tolerant behavior (the organization of a special event-activity environment, personality-role development of tolerant behavior, creating situations of success in building and implementing strategies for sustainable cooperation based on ethnic, cultural and religious differences, the use of implicit measures; stability of intergroup tolerance). The significance of the results obtained is that the identified mechanisms provide: 1) the formation of cognitive ideas about tolerance and focus on tolerant behavior; 2) formation of the valuable attitude to the honor and dignity of the individual, the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, mutual understanding and constructive cooperation with others; 3) development of skills of situations of tolerant behavior.