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Technologie wspierające prywatność – ideologia, prawo, wdrożenia
Privacy Enhancing Technologies – ideology, law and implementations

Author(s): Daniel Mider, Ewa Aleksandra Ziemak
Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Library and Information Science, Civil Law, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Other, Sociology, Security and defense, Criminology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: privacy enhancing technologies; anonymity; cybercrime; terrorism; crypto anarchy

Summary/Abstract: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) create a threat to the social order which is shown in the analysis of their ideological as well as political foundations and legal regulations that introduce restrictions on their use. Study into their actual applications in cybercriminal activity proves it too. This paper is a review with practical purpose and includes an original typology of PET. The most commonly used IT instruments that create a potential and actual threat were selected and analysed: software ensuring anonymous communication (Tor, Freenet, Linux Tails, Whonix), cryptocurrency systems enabling anonymous trade (Monero, Zcash, Dash) and an application enabling data encryption (VeraCrypt). The summary includes an attempt to extract the model attributes of privacy-enhancing technologies on the basis of previous analyses.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 132-172
  • Page Count: 41
  • Language: Polish