РROTECTION OF INFORMATION RIGHTS OF CITIZENS AS A DIRECTION OF LEGAL SCIENCE

Abstract

This article analyses the reasons for updating the protection of citizens ‘information rights in modern
conditions. Informatization, and then digitalization, allows the state to collect all the necessary information
to ensure effective management and protect national and public security. However, information
security issues of an individual person remain not fully protected from all sides: technological, technical,
procedural, legal, etc. Based on the analysis of the structure of information rights, conclusions are drawn
about the need to rethink the content of the human right to information protection. Based on the study
of modern problems of information security of an individual, the author offers a number of recommendations
in the field of constitutional and information law. In particular, amendments to the classical theory
of human rights have been proposed. Namely, it is proposed to single out information rights, namely, the
whole complex of individual rights into a separate generation of rights. Such an approach, according to
the author, will ensure a comprehensive approach by the world community to solving problems of legal
protection, the development of international conventions and ensure control over their implementation
at all levels.
Key words: information, information rights, protection of information rights, information security,
protection of individual rights.