Сonstitutional Foundations of Digital Sovereignty

he paper examines the political and legal features of sovereignty in the historical and social context. Special attention is paid to the peculiarities of the information society, which has become an impetus for the formation of ideas in the scientific community about the emergence of a new digital sovereignty. The paper criticizes the validity of separating the concept of digital sovereignty into a separate category. For this purpose, the analysis of state policies of various countries aimed at ensuring information security is carried out. Through the goals pursued by governments, an attempt is made to identify new essential features of digital sovereignty. It is proved that the development of information and telecommunications technologies that affect the spatial-temporal and national borders, modify the legal forms of state power. The purpose of this work is to identify the constitutional and legal content of the concept of digital sovereignty, to outline the scope of acceptable state policies in the information sphere aimed at ensuring digital sovereignty. According to research, the main goal is to to analyze the doctrines of governments and sovereignty, identify the features of the information society that affect the content of human and civil rights and freedoms, assess the constitutionality of certain normative legal acts and restrictions imposed by the interests of information security. In summary, the concept of sovereignty is not inert and acquires new essential characteristics during the development of the state and society. However, the development of information and telecommunication technologies has not led to its significant deformation. State sovereignty, which within the state guarantees the supremacy of public authority on its territory influences the formation of national policy goals, forms and ways of achieving them. The Russian Federation, when forming its internal policy aimed at ensuring information security, is largely moving in the same directions that were set by global trends. The analysis of normative legal acts that restrict rights and freedoms in one way or another in order to protect the security of the state has shown their unsystematic and often situational nature.