Principles of Information Security of a Child on the Internet

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition and justification of the principles of information security of the child on the Internet. In determining the principles considered and taken into account a set of international and domestic regulations and strategic policy documents, reflecting the main approaches to ensure the rights of the child to information and regulating the safety of the child when handling information. The necessity of taking into account the age, psychological characteristics of the child as a participant of information relations is noted. The authors substantiate the conclusion that the status of the child involves the performance of parents (persons replacing them) their responsibilities for the education of children, which necessarily includes the formation of children’s ability to navigate in the modern information environment. The authors proposed and justified the following principles: the principle of recognition of children as equal participants in the information society, the principle of responsible parenthood, the principle of state and legal regulation; the principle of improving information literacy. Methodology. The paper uses the dialectical method of cognition, which allowed to take into account the successive principles of various normative legal acts, strategic documents, their relationship and the rationale for the need for a unified state policy in the field of protection of children from negative information. The application of General scientific methods of cognition—analysis and synthesis, which allowed establishing internal links between the individual principles of information security of the child and their conceptual expression in strategic documents and normative legal acts. The comparative legal private-scientific method contributed to the comparison of the approaches reflected in the documents fixing information security and the rights of the child in the Russian Federation for the formulation and justification of the principles of information security of the child on the Internet.