LEGAL LABYRINTH OF CYBERSPACE – A MAP FOR THE RESPONSIBLE USER

Abstract

Today's Internet as a social medium can be perceived in many ways. In general terms, it can be a cyberspace used to provide services, sell goods, and for other purposes of public life. On the one hand, the Internet provides unlimited possibilities of freedom, access to the source of all information, but on the other hand it can be perceived as a source of threats to the accepted social order and legal order. Attacks using it are directed, among others, at systems, data and computer programs, user privacy and intellectual property. In Polish literature on the subject, the issue of counteracting and punishing crimes related to the content of information in the conditions of the perpetrator's use of electronic data processing systems has not until recently found much interest. This issue concerns not only socially and politically important and disturbing issues, which have not yet been fully scientifically developed, but is increasingly appearing in the practice of the justice system. Hence, it deserves much wider interest than before.                                                           

The socially undertaken discourse on the free flow of information on the Internet and the multitude of assessments accompanying this topic prompted the author to edit the article.