Реалізація принципу достовірності інформації у сфері забезпечення доступу до інформації

Abstract

The article deals with the theoretical and practical basis of implementation of the principle of reliability of information in the field of ensuring access to information. To conduct the research, the author used general scientific and specialized methods of cognition, namely comparative and legal, formal and juridical, method of legal modeling, method of system analysis and others. The goal of the research is to develop theoretical fundamentals which specify peculiarities of implementing the principle of reliability of information. It is marked that the problems of reliability of information have recently attracted scientists’ great attention and become the object of information and legal scientific researches devoted to ensuring reliability within the framework of certain legal relationship. The work analyzes doctrinal ideas about reliability as a general property of information, factors influencing appearance of false information. The researcher makes review of the scientific literature and opinions concerning the category of “reliable information” in jurisprudence. Reliable information is considered as accurate, complete data representing objective reality, admitted by subjects of the developing relationship. To assure such conditions, different legal and other tools can be used, including publication, official introduction into specialized registers, as well as other information and legal systems, into the state (public) information systems, appeal to the presumption of reliability of information, etc. The information and legal principle of reliability should be viewed as an independent aspect which consists in the necessity of providing, obtaining, keeping, producing and distributing information that is true regardless of the principle of timeliness of information. The author proves the system character of the legal support for reliability of information, identifies a system of legal support for reliability of information, defines its features, functions, peculiarities and tendencies of development in the process of providing access to information in the age of developing information society, digital transformation and transition to the knowledge society.