Keyword: «information rights and freedoms»

In the article, the author examines the social and legal grounds for restrictions on the rights and freedoms of man and citizen in the information sphere, threats and challenges for modern people, society and the state in the context of digitalization and globalization of the legal space and crime. Based on the analysis of statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, judicial statistics and sociological surveys, the author made conclusions about the patterns of transformation of the approaches of the legislator and law enforcer in regulating the information environment and the evolution of information and legal policy from a liberal approach to a conservative one. The main directions of legal regulation are characterized, a number of problems are identified and ways to overcome them are proposed.