The paper actualizes the issues of combating drug trafficking using the Internet on the example of Ukraine. Given the significant difference in the approach to this issue among Ukrainian and foreign scientists, this allowed to carry out a multifaceted analysis. The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive study (criminological and forensic) on the use of the Internet in the commission of crimes related to drug trafficking, on the example of Ukraine. Profiling was used as the main method. The novelty of this work is the extrapolation of the method of profiling cybercriminals to persons who commit illicit drug distribution using the Internet in Ukraine as a special category of cybercriminals. The specific objectives of the study are: to study the characteristics of an offender who commits crimes related to drug trafficking via the Internet using the method of profiling; study of typical investigative situations that arise when committing crimes related to drug trafficking on the Internet; development of comprehensive recommendations for combating this group of crimes, taking into account both the identity of an offender and investigative situations that most often arise in practice. Based on the study, the article conducted (using secondary data) profiling of people who distribute drugs using the Internet in Ukraine. The profiling also includes a comprehensive portrait of such a criminal, which includes both socio-demographic and psychological characteristics of this category of criminals, studied their motivation, conducted a study of the victimological aspect and features of the study of evidence in this category of crimes.

The relevance of the research topic is stipulated by the need to conduct the scientific research of a state and issues of modern cybersecurity ensuring under the fight against corruption as its threat to suggest significant directions for the further development and improvement of the cybersecurity state in the context of global challenges and the pandemic and post-pandemic world’s development. The research purpose of the paper is to determine current issues and prospective of ensuring cybersecurity under the fight against corruption as its threat in pandemic and post-pandemic world conditions. General-scientific and special-legal methods of cognition have been used. By using a dialectical method, theoretical background and current issues of cybersecurity ensuring under the fight against corruption as its threat has been investigated and the modern challenges concerning this issue have been outlined. Formal-legal and comparative methods allowed suggesting the directions of cybersecurity ensuring in conditions of the fight against corruption as its threat under the global changes, digitalization and social transformations under the innovative cyber technological development of pandemic and post-pandemic reality. Discussion concerning a concept, types, challenges, issues, and prospects of cybersecurity improvement in conditions of the modern world under the fight against corruption as its threat.

The application of the latest technologies in biology and medicine has brought them to a qualitatively new level of possibilities. Worldwide, biobanking is actively developing through the creation of biobanks of various types and purposes, whose resources are used to solve therapeutic or scientific problems. Legal science remains an open question concerning the boundary that runs between the right to data protection and the scope of disclosure of data needed for medical purposes. In this article, the author considers peculiarities of data processing in the context of biobanking activity on the example of Austria and its national legislation. In addition, the article reveals features of the approaches of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Council of Europe to the issue of biobanking in general, its characteristics in the context of data, and legal regulation of this phenomenon in the national law of states. The author devoted an important part of the study to the role of Austria’s experience in the context of data processing for scientific purposes and the development of biobanking for a number of other European states. The aim of the article is to analyze the Austrian legislation on data processing for scientific research and biobanking, the attitude of the Council of Europe to this phenomenon, and the practice of the ECtHR, as well as to consider the impact of the current world situation on these activities. The leading method of research used in the article is the formal-legal method. The article analyzes the Austrian law in the context of data processing in medical research, the relationship of the specifics of personal data protection, and the need to disclose them for scientific purposes. The author pays special attention to the influence of Austrian law on the legislation of other countries, which is reflected in the conclusions to the article. In addition, based on an analysis of the application of the Austrian experience to the legislation of Poland and Ukraine, the author points out the necessary changes that should be made in the laws of these countries.

Overcoming corruption is extremely important, as it is a danger to the state, society, and the individual. Of particular note is the experience of European Union member states that have implemented anti-corruption programs, achieved the necessary positive results, and laid the foundations for sustainable socio-political development, in particular in the context of guaranteeing national security. The aim of the study can be described as the analysis and detailed characterization of anti-corruption legislation and strategies to prevent corruption at the national and supranational levels of the European Union. The methodological basis of the work is scientific methods based on the requirements of objective and comprehensive analysis of social phenomena of a legal nature. A number of general scientific research methods were used in this study. The following methods can be distinguished: semantic and system analysis, discourse, methods of induction and deduction, historical-legal and formal-legal methods, and others. The article offers a detailed overview and thorough consideration of legal instruments of the Member States of the European Union on corruption and the relevant anti-corruption legislation of the European Union Member States.

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