INFORMATION SOCIETY, INFORMATION RELATIONS AND LEGISLATION

The notions «information», «information society», «information relations» are revealed. The classification of the latter is suggested. The sources of legal regulation and principles of information relations are highlighted.
The place of the right to know in the system of constitutional civil rights and liberties in relation with the existing in the international community of the understanding of development of information society is defined.
The interaction of information relations and information technologies through the example of legislation on acts of civil status and incorporation and individual entrepreneurs (as applied to the status of the subject); official registration of real estate, activities on maintenance of register of equity securities, register of security holder (as applied to the qualification of an object of law and consideration of these rights in him); revealing of information in the information and telecommunications network «Internet», GIS of housing and public utilities, calculations made with the usage of electronic payment facilities, Universal information notarial system, electronic
document management (as applied to the informational ensuring of activity) is viewed.
The problems of informatization and information technologies are revealed.