ENSURING INFORMATION SECURITY IN ELECTRONIC CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines the issue of ensuring information security when conducting electronic criminal proceedings in Ukraine. It was emphasized that the Internet has become a platform for manipulating public opinion and committing criminal offenses. Participants in criminal procedural activities, using information technologies, face difficulties in collecting, extracting, copying, moving and checking electronic information contained in procedural documents. Persons who conduct investigations of criminal proceedings must have a high level of competence in the field of information technology use and have technical means for gathering evidence.

It was determined that recent years have been marked by the introduction of a number of changes to national legislation aimed at regulating and preventing abuses in the field of classified information. The Law of Ukraine "On the Basics of National Security of Ukraine" made a significant contribution to the legal basis of the creation of the information protection system and bodies by identifying threats to national security in the information sphere, namely: restrictions on freedom of speech and citizensʼ access to information; spread of the cult of violence, cruelty and pornography through mass media; cases of computer crime and computer terrorism; disclosure of information constituting a state and other, legally defined secret, as well as confidential information belonging to the state or aimed at meeting the needs and national interests of society and the state; attempts to manipulate public consciousness, including the dissemination of inaccurate, incomplete or hidden information.

It was concluded that electronic criminal proceedings are a form of criminal procedural activity, which is based on the component algorithms of automated criminal procedures, which include the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations and electronic information systems integrated with it.