THE PROBLEM OF CORRELATION BETWEEN INFORMATION RIGHTS AND INFORMATION FREEDOM OF MAN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Abstract

The article substantiates that the guarantees of human rights and freedoms in the information sphere are among the most important principles of the formation of a law- governed state and civil society. It is shown that law is a tool which with the help of special legal methods makes it possible to realize the information freedom of a person. Being the product and the result of the natural development of the whole society, law has to take into account interests of both the whole society and the individual. Law gives a person a number of opportunities which can be used to exercise information freedom intrinsic to man.

Keywords

• свобода
• право
• інформація
• інформаційне суспільство
• інфор- маційні права
• інформаційна свобода