Today, the agenda includes the transformation of civil society in the era of the information revolution, the impact of information technologies on the development of civil society and ensuring constitutional human rights and freedoms. The spread of the Internet, access to information on a global scale, and the simplification of communications create conditions for the strengthening of human social activity in civil society, but do not ensure its inevitability. Information technology is just a tool that can be used for various purposes. In the article, the authors raise the question of whether the development of information technologies and the spread of the Internet contributes to the strengthening of social trust and ensuring the constitutional rights and freedoms of every person. As a result of the analysis, the authors conclude that in countries with developed.

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The article examines the prospects, as well as the limitations associated with the possible use of biometric technologies in the electoral process of the Russian Federation, in particular, the inaccessibility of centers that collect biometric data, low awareness of citizens, failure of biometric technologies. The article analyzes the risks that can lead to unlawful deprivation of voters’ constitutional rights to participate in elections and referendums. In the end, it is concluded that it is necessary to provide legal guarantees for observing the electoral rights of citizens and the right to participate in a referendum, in particular, to establish a procedure for fixing the facts of technical violations that do not allow identifying voters and making a decision on admitting such voters to voting. This procedure is designed to guarantee the observance of the electoral rights of citizens in conditions of impossibility of biometric identification due to technical violations.