Digitalization in the constitutional and legal dimension

Introduction: the article is devoted to the analysis of a dynamically developing process - digitalization, which is an important component of our state’s policy, in the context of constitutional and legal reality. Its main focus is the formation of the information society, the digital economy, ensuring national interests and strategic national priorities, creating conditions for free access of citizens and public authorities to information at all stages of its manifestation and dissemination, as well as improving the regulatory framework in this area. In this regard, it is the constitutional law that has a special role to play in regulating specific public relations that cover the fundamental principles of sociopolitical life, human and civil rights and freedoms, And the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, which is an important means of constitutionalizing the information and digital space, in resolving new, previously unknown disputes and cases, eliminating gaps and conflicts in the information and digital sphere. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis consists of applying both General scientific and special methods developed in law. During the research, the following methods of scientific knowledge played a special role: dialectical, comparative legal, statistical, logical, and others. Results of the Study: based on the analysis of scientific tools, as well as the regulatory framework and decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, to consider the features of digitalization in the constitutional and legal dimension. Findings and Conclusions: the author makes conclusions about the influence of information technologies not only on the organization and activities of public authorities, but also on the implementation of the provisions of the constitutional law, on the implementation of many of the constitutional principles and norms through the digital environment and about the role of law as a universal regulator, which is the vector of translational motion of a person in the world of new technology, a completely new previously unknown categories of individual rights - digital.