Application of Digital Technologies: the Need for Advanced Legal Regulation and Raising the Level of Legal Culture of Citizens

One of the most important tasks of modern states is to ensure the security of the individual, including when using digital technologies. In connection with its implementation, appropriate decisions are made in the field of improving legal regulation. It is necessary to develop and improve the norms and mechanisms for the protection of human rights and freedoms when using digital technologies, critical information infrastructure, to combat cybercrime. Strengthening international cooperation contributes to the updating of standards and the legal mechanism for regulating information relations. It is important that regulations are adopted in a timely manner, keeping up with the development of information relations; the law must objectively ensure the performance of the function of advanced legal regulation. New technologies, including actively developing artificial intelligence technologies, can pose significant risks to humanity if the purposes of using these technologies are not consistent with human legal values. It is important to develop skills in the field of cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime. A sufficient level of education, digital literacy, commitment to the moral and ethical humanistic foundations of society are a necessary basis for obtaining digital citizenship and ensuring the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. It is necessary to improve the legal culture of digital citizens.