УДК 342.7:004
DOI https://doi.org/10.30839/2072-7941.2018.155551

RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES OF A MODERN HUMAN

© SOSNIN, O. V.
Academician Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Science (Kyiv,
Ukraine)
E-mail: alvas.sosnin@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0003-4188-0887

Abstract. The urgency of studying the problems of rights and freedoms in the
information and communication activities of modern humans is determined by the fact that
they exist due to the spread of all new knowledge through the growing functionality of digital
information and communication technologies and information processing systems. It begins
to rethink the role and significance of the country's information resource. At the same time,
the very concept of "information" from the category, which for centuries characterized the
system of knowledge, is transforming. The purpose of the study is the conceptualization of
rights and freedoms in the information and communication activities of a modern person,
which is conditioned by the dissemination of new knowledge through the use of functional
capabilities of digital information and communication technologies and information
processing systems. Tasks of the research: analysis of technological, ideological and legal
problems of the global information and communication space; definition of the conceptualcategorical
apparatus of the research - "information", "knowledge", "information security",
"jurisdiction of states in the conditions of globalization", "monopolization of legal force" and
their influence on the development of information and communication activities of society;
formation of the directions of increase of the state information and communication activity of
Ukraine for realization of constitutional rights of citizens; consider information law as a
science, which allows a new way to consider communication processes that have
infocommunication technological horizontals and based on the understanding of the resource
of knowledge. The analysis of the latest research and publications that initiated the
solution of this problem: the use of articles by O. Dzhoban, O. Sosnin "Information security:
new dimensions of threats associated with the intensification of international activities in the
field of information and communication"; O. Dovhan "Information resources: national and
state, content, concept"; Y.Mastyanitsya, O. Sosnin, L.Shymansky "Information Resources of
Ukraine: Problems of Public Administration; M. Ozhevan "National Competitive Exploration
in a Globalized World: New Challenges and Threats Against the Background of the"
Snowden Case ". The methodology of the research is systematic, structural, structural and
functional methods, which allowed to structure the problems and to identify functional
relationships between them. Scientific novelty - in the formulation of the very problem -
rights and freedoms in the information and communication activities of the modern person.
Results of the research: the issue of training specialists for the legislative definition of the
problems of information and communication, analytical, informational and advocacy and
management work in the information sphere; The main information and communication
threats to the safety of innovation processes in Ukraine were identified. The conclusion is to
create conditions for addressing the security problems of information and communication
activities in the implementation of the latest ICT.
Key words: information, information and communication technologies, information and
communication activity, information and communication space, human rights and freedoms,
information and communication security threats