Features of identification and disclosure of crimes related to the acquisition or sales of digital information learned by illegal

The purpose of this study was to study the problems and mechanisms of the peculiarities of detecting and solving crimes related to the acquisition or sale of digital information, knowingly obtained by illegal means. Research objectives: the achievements of our time are due to the development of high technologies and the operational unlimited exchange of digital information that surrounds us everywhere: when working at computers, when transferring data in a mobile communication system, on the Internet, when using the capabilities of artificial intelligence, social networks, and other electronic services. The development of information technology predetermined the urgent need for the formation of a digital economy during the transition from the virtual space to the real impact of digital technologies on the economy, politics, law, and the socio-cultural sphere of the entire world community. At the same time, digital information, possessing real or potential economic value, gradually begins to become an object of economic activity and, as a result, an object of criminal encroachments. Conclusions: limiting the circulation of digital information, knowingly obtained by illegal (criminal) means, is a key factor in combating crimes in the field of high technologies and needs criminal legal protection. Most often, digital information is stolen for the purpose of selling it to customers, i.e. this type of crime has become a separate type of business. And given the lack of legal regulation of such a subject as digital information in Russian criminal legislation, in this article we propose to introduce into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation responsibility for the acquisition and sale of digital information obtained by criminal means, establishing the appropriate punishment.

digital information, acquisition, marketing, responsibility