Digital world and law

Digitalization of all (or almost all) spheres of human life also affects the problems of law and law enforcement. Purpose: to analyze some aspects of digitalization of crime, human rights and freedoms, administration of justice. Methods: analysis of literary sources, statistics, theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic are used. Results: the review of the dynamics of modern crime rate and structure in the world and in Russia allows us to conclude that there is a tendency to reduce the crime rate, especially violent crime, and the emergence of new types of «digital» crimes - cybercrimes, fraud in the field of computer technology. The use of digital methods of observing over people has given rise to a new and complex problem: «security measures versus human rights and freedoms», «orwellization» of life. Digital methods will increasingly be used in the administration of justice. «Electronic scales of justice», offering a measure of punishment in a specific criminal case is one of the implementations of introducing digitalization in judicial proceedings.