The transformation of legal policy in the context of digitalization of the legal reality

Introduction: the technical and technological transformations of modern society are taking on a global scale and the consequences which are difficult to predict for humanity. The digital age increases a person's dependence on the results of their intellectual work and generates a certain value conflict. The peculiarity of the modern stage of information and technological society is that technologies become part of social reality; they go beyond the relationship “man - technology - technical result”. The purpose of the research is to formulate a conceptual view of the transformation of legal policy in modern society, which is constantly in the process of digital changes. The research aims to reveal new problems that arise in the digital society, to propose a review of the role of traditional legal means, in particular, legal policy in order to design innovative technical approaches and high-end technologies in society. Methods: the paper uses philosophical and general scientific principles; system, genetic and activity approaches; the methods: formal legal, analysis and synthesis. Results: information becomes an essential condition for ensuring human survival in a complex world that is moving along the path of informatization, digitalization, and technologization. By introducing techniques and technologies into their life and practice, people are guided by the goals of humanization, creative self-expression, and unlimited improvement of their own nature. But in any activity there are “side effects” that hinder the progressive intellectual and spiritual growth of humanity. These inhibitory factors are determined both by the properties of the information itself and by the objective characteristics of the social reality in which this information circulates. Technological progress, information, risks, law, legislation, and the values of society - these are the key “assemblage points” around which the modern domestic legal policy is built and implemented. Conclusions: legal policy in modern Russia is being transformed and presented as a special activity of social actors to adequately transform the legal reality in accordance with the needs of the developing information society using legal forms and methods based on modern information and communication technologies.