IS THE RULE-OF-LAW STATE POSSIBLE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?

Abstract

The development of scientific and technological progress, especially engineering products, metaphorically called «artificial intelligence technologies», led to the fact that some futurologists, forecasters and other visionaries began to warn about the end of the era of rule-of-law states and the future «digital slavery». Purpose: to consider the issues related to the metaphors «digital concentration camp» and «digital slavery» taking into account the adoption of the Federal Law «On a Single Federal Information Resource Containing Information about the Population of the Russian Federation», as well as other laws regulating legal relations in the so-called «digital environment», in particular, related to personal data. Therefore, legal scholars have a task to discuss what will happen to the rights of a person (a person and a citizen) so that humanity does not turn into «digital slaves», from whom the «digital identity» is stolen. Methods: the author applies a systematic approach and standard methods of legal analysis. Results: it is shown that these fears are not in vain, but human civilization will not allow the power of robots, a world war on self-destruction, and the emergence of what is called a digital concentration camp.