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FREEDOM AND SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE – A FEW COMMENTS ON THE BASIS OF JURISPRUDENCE
Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg1
PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SECURITY
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 13 May 2016
Keywords: freedom, security, cyberspace, jurisprudence
Abstract A new era was started by global and unfettered access to the Internet, allowing access to virtually unlimited information resources, their rapid exchange and processing. The anonymity of Internet users, threats to privacy and lack of control over illegal content on the network are a growing problem, often being a threat to the freedom and security of the individual. Over the centuries a continual emphasis has been given to the concept that power should serve justic and the general good, otherwise results in the formation of law have no legitimacy. Unfettered freedom of action is compelling and can appear as the highest good. Freedom of the individual is paramount, but it ends up where it infringes the freedom of another person. The role of law is to protect the rights and interests of the individual and therefore it is necessary to define the rules restricting freedom. Freedom and its limitation in the name of freedom of another, or for the security of the individual or the state, is an extremely difficult problem, whose solution requires a balance between security requirements and guarantees of civil rights and freedoms.
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Kolegium Prawa
E-mail: mskorzewska@kozminski.edu.pl.