Trends in Legal Regulation of Relations for the Use of Information Technologies

Abstract

The article offers an analysis the existing alternative mechanisms for regulating relations, regulating relations directly or indirectly mediating the use of information technologies, including relations on their development, implementation and direct application, provides an overview of acts developed by the professional business community. The assessment of the permissibility of such acts, the degree of their compliance and role in the formation of legislation that ensures a balance of the interests of the state in terms of fulfilling its duty to maintain the state of protection of citizens in the context of large-scale introduction of information technologies, on the one hand, and the interests of the business sector of the information technology market in promoting products that meet the requirements of legislation and trends in its development. An important issue is also the search for the optimal way to give local acts the status of binding by bona fide market participants. The decisions of state authorities that already exist in the information market, which make it possible to give acts of self-regulation binding force, are considered.