Digital legal control as a new civil category

Introduction: the article looks at digitalization of economy through the prism of the ‘new technological path’, Digital Earth concept, digital innovation in the framework of Industry 4.0. The focus is on the advantages and disadvantages of such digitalization from the perspective of digital legal control. In the light of the formulated thesis about the absence of a unified scientific idea of the place of digital legal control in the system of relations under private or public law, the author attempts to develop the fundamentals of the digital legal control concept, which is presented in the article as a new civil category.