Legal Principles and Human Rights in the Digital Age

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the impact of digitalization on legal principles and human rights. The author analyzed the experience of foreign countries in the use of digital technologies (in particular, the experience of the USA, Great Britain, China, and the Netherlands) and identified the main legal problems arising from digitalization: firstly, violation of the principle of equality of all before the law and the court, secondly, violation of adversarial principle; the right to appeal a court decision decisions, actions, omissions and decisions of public authorities and civil servants; the right to judicial protection, and thirdly, the violation of the right to privacy, personal and family secrets, and the right to personal data protection. The paper examines the causes of such legal problems and suggests ways to prevent them.