Criminal Legal Support for Safeguarding the Citizens’ Digital Rights

The article discusses the active introduction of technologies based on the use of artificial intelligence, the activities of which entail the storage, transmission and processing of information circulating in information and telecommunication devices, their systems and networks. The article indicates that the amount of computing power of artificial intelligence technologies can significantly change the foundations of the functioning of information legal relations and, accordingly, the procedure and conditions for the implementation of digital rights of citizens. The inevitability of computer attacks on automated information systems using artificial intelligence, as well as the possibility of its misuse, create significant criminological risks of unauthorized access and use of citizens' digital rights by subjects through these technologies. The article examines the criminal law support for the protection of digital rights of citizens as a priority direction in the development of theory and practice of the application of criminal law institutions in the global, national and regional dimensions. The initial theses formulated in this study can be used in the future when building state policy and developing legal regulation of relations in the context of industrialization and digitalization