The System of Human Rights and Freedoms in the Context of the Technological Revolution
The article is devoted to the problems associated with the development of the human rights system in the Russian Federation during the period of widespread use of new technologies. This (in addition to a positive impact, such as implying an increase in productivity, strengthening the economy, improving the level and quality of human life) poses significant threats to the human person, his dignity and rights. The author explores the possible forms of transformation of the human rights system in order to solve regulatory issues in those areas of human activity, which are most strongly influenced by modern technologies. The development of the modern system of human rights has been manifested in several forms: supplementation of the list of human rights with a new human right, expanding the content of a particular human right, and increasing the legal and material guarantees of its exercise. Human rights have a significant potential for transforming its content and scope of new social relations, since they have a broad formulation. Moreover, taking into account the peculiarities of the legal structure of human rights, they are not only subjective rights themselves, but also serve as provisions and principles. Therefore they can regulate new spheres of human activity. The author concludes that it is groundlessness to assume a new age of rights of a new generation, including various somatic, genetic, information, digital, virtual, and other rights. At the same time, it is clear that some of these rights have already been being forming and gathering momentum for their international recognition and incorporation into national legislation. At the present time, the content of human rights, which should operate in new areas of human activity, is ontologically related to the fundamental foundations of human rights - freedom and equality. This means that the interests of an individual protected by the new rights' guarantees have concrete manifestations and an organic part of the already established basic values.