PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION LAW

Abstract

The article examines the legal nature of the principles of information law. In the framework
of information law, as in other areas of law, one should provide a multi-level system of
principles, which are based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation, a number of international
instruments, Information Act and other legal acts. The authoring system of the principles
of information law is given. Sectorial principles for Information Law are divided by
the author into three blocks: the principles that reflect the general nature of the information as
an object relations, the nature of the legal information (the principle of information regime,
the principle of balancing the rights and legitimate interests of the individual, society and the
state in the information activities); principles that reflect the nature of availability (public)
information (freedom to seek, receive, transmit, produce and disseminate information by any
legal means, disclosure and accessibility of information, except as required by federal law,
the accuracy of information and timeliness of its provision); principles that reflect the nature
of confidentiality of information and possible harmful nature of its actions (setting restrictions
to access information by federal laws, privacy, inadmissibility of collection, storage, use
and dissemination of information about the private life of a person without his consent, preventing
unauthorized distribution, use, and destruction of information, provision of information
to minimize the negative impacts and negative consequences in the event of modification
and termination of information relations (information and information objects operation).