Information Habitat and its Criminal Law Protection

Abstract

Relevance. All previous conditions of human habitation on earth: natural, man-made, social and others, have determined the modern "information environment" of people. The “information environment” that has existed since the beginning of the 21st century is a new constant representing the organization, management and life support of the information society, the state and the individual. The increase in the flow of information, as well as its volume, essence and features, the "information habitat" is constantly filled with new meanings and meanings, which determines the relevance of the study of this phenomenon.Purpose is to determine the concept, volume and architecture of the modern information environment and the magnitude of its criminal law protection.Objectives: to study a new concept for modern society and a state formulated as an “information environment”, as well as the possibilities of its effective protection in the arsenal of criminal law.Methodology. In the process of writing a scientific article, general scientific and particular methods were used: dialectical, historical, systemic-structural, concrete-legal, comparative-legal analysis of documents, as well as methods that provide a uniform and reliable empirical material.The results of the study consist in the formulation of the author's definition of the concept of "information environment" and the definition of a system of criminal law norms that ensure the protection of the modern information environment in the Russian Federation.Conclusion. The results of the study allowed the author to come to the conclusion that modern Russian society exists in a new material-virtual reality called the "information environment", and its entire volume is provided by criminal law protection.