Information and information security in the light of criminal law protection

Abstract

The article analyzes the understanding of information security and information in the context of their criminal law protection. The development of the understanding of information security in the doctrine of criminal law and related branches of law, as well as in other social sciences, is analyzed. In addition, the way of changing the understanding of information security in domestic legislation is defined according to the existing tendency to expand its content from a narrow, simplest understanding as technical protection of information to a complex branched system of characteristics. It has been established that the fundamental change in the role of information that takes place in modern society, when it becomes the main resource in the economy, without it the political, cultural, and private life of a person is impossible, leads to the fact that there is a need for a regulatory and legal reflection of such changes, because without proper regulation of information rights and freedoms of a person, in the absence of a high level of their protection, an effective mechanism for the implementation of information relations becomes impossible. Undoubtedly, one of the most important components of such a mechanism is the criminal law protection of information, because the direction, intensity of development and effectiveness of all social relations will depend on it. Recognizing information as the subject of a criminal offense is considered correct on the basis that it is always transmitted using appropriate media, it can be seen, heard, and felt; information can be changed, destroyed, blocked, distorted, copied, appropriated, distributed, etc.