Use of information technology to ensure security of the individual, society and state

Introduction: the article analyzes threats to the individual, society and state present in the modern society, and considers the principal directions in the use of modern information technology for ensuring security and increasing efficiency of the state activities and law enforcement. Purpose: based on the study of technical characteristics of computer technologies and software, to identify spheres of the information technology application, to determine the legal regulation of the technology application for providing the efficiency of the state and administrative activities in law enforcement with the aim of creating a safe living environment. Methods: the methodological framework of the research is based on a set of methods of scientific cognition, including general scientific and specific scientific ones, in particular the formal-legal, comparative law, technical-legal methods. Results: the authors state that technical, organizational, administrative and legal aspects of the information technology implementation optimize the activities on ensuring security, but the conditions of the global computerization create new risks for privacy. The article explores the guarantees against the total control to prevent the invasion of privacy. Some specific aspects are analyzed necessary to reach a reasonable balance between the information technology implementation and observance of the constitutional guarantees of privacy. Conclusions: in the modern information society, with the widespread use of the artificial intellect and the increasing number of cybercrimes, the application of information technology in all the spheres of law enforcement, economic and regulatory activities is a necessary, inevitable and the most promising way of development to ensure security of the individual, society and state.