The right to information under the conditions of modern globalization: certain aspects

Abstract

The article analyzes issues related to the content of the right to information in the modern context, limitations of the right to information and responsibility for information in the modern globalized society.
 The realities of today's globalized world put another aspect of the issue of the right to information on the agenda. It is about limiting the right to information and responsibility for abusing freedom of information for the purpose of manipulating public opinion, and accordingly influencing the nature of social relations through it.
 The outlined circle of certain problematic aspects of the realization of the right to information in modern conditions proves the obvious need for the systematization of national legislation in this area. A manifestation of this could be the adoption of the long-awaited Information Code of Ukraine. Talks about this code have been going on since 1995, when the National Agency for Informatization under the President of Ukraine initiated its development.
 As it seems to us, in this basic legal act in the information sphere, it is necessary to synchronize all normative legal acts in the information sphere, to bring them into line with today's requirements. In it, among other things, issues related to the clear establishment of the circle of modern subjects of information relations and their basic rights and obligations, the only principles that regulate these relations, should find their legal consolidation. Taking into account modern realities, it is necessary to modernize a number of terms in the information field, first of all, those related to the information space, such as information war, cybercrime, etc.
 All this, ultimately, will contribute to the practical implementation of the main purpose of the right to information - to expand the opportunities of each person to ensure his other subjective rights, and therefore to increase his confidence in his own abilities and the satisfaction of his interests, the interests of society and the state as a whole.