Legal principles of ensuring social security in the conditions of digitalization of Ukraine

Abstract

The transformation of society is due to the development of the information society and the gradual transition to the knowledge society, the impact of digitization on all spheres of life of society and citizens. Recently, the issue of the transformation of social security in the context of the development of digitalization of all spheres of the life of the state and society has been brought up to date. The purpose of the article is to analyze the legal framework for ensuring social security in the context of digitalization in Ukraine with a view to developing the ways to improve the policy in this area. The methodology of the article is based on a complex, interdisciplinary approach, the principle of historicism for conducting a legal analysis of normative legal acts in the field of social security of Ukraine for 1990-2022 in the conditions of digitalization. The results demonstrate the dynamism of technology development and digitalization of society with slow legislative changes in the field of social security. Since the beginning of 2007, legislative provisions in the researched field and conceptual principles of digitalization of the socio-economic system have been implemented in Ukraine. Complex digitization is aimed at comprehensive and deep transformation of existing analogues of economic and social systems and spheres into new value and quality to ensure social security of the state, society and citizen. Therefore, the authors note the importance of introducing key legislative acts regarding the effective implementation of digital technologies in the further development of social security in accordance with the strategic goals of the state and modern technological trends.