SOCIO-LEGAL REGULATION OF THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT: PROBLEMS, REALITIES, PROSPECTS

Aim. To analyze the mechanism of the socio-legal regulation of the Internet environment, taking into account the information and technological innovations determining it, the psychological aspects of the impact on the users, the economic and legal factors, including the latest legislative initiatives taken in this field. Methodology. The study examines cybercrime as a phenomenon of the social and legal character, demonstrating the progressive dynamics of its spread all over the modern world. Dialectical, comparative, and predictive methods, as well as methods of typology, analysis, and synthesis are used in the study. The study provides actual statistical data in the affected problem area. Special attention is paid to the specifics of the legal regulation of cybercrime in foreign countries and to the experience of countering cybercrime in modern Russia. Results. The study shows that in modern conditions, the current legal base and the practice of regulating the Internet environment still remain underdeveloped. The evolution of computer technologies is significantly ahead of the system of legal relations formed in this area. This makes difficult to develop operatively the laws regulating relations and activities in cyberspace, and increases the chances for cybercriminals to avoid punishment. That’s why cybercrime today is considered as one of the main threats to the state system of national security and the global model of sustainable development. Research implications. Using the results of a comparison of various regulatory documents given in the work, it is possible to establish which additional instruments of legal regulation are required to be introduced into the legislative sphere affecting the system of relationships in the Internet environment.

the Internet environment, cybercrime, cyber security, law, legal regulation

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