НЕКИ АСПЕКТИ ПРИВАТНОСТИ У САЈБЕРСПЕЈСУ
SOME ASPECTS OF PRIVACY IN CYBERSPACE

Summary/Abstract: The privacy issue has always been the focal point of attention in different scientific areas. The problem is multidisciplinary and should therefore be treated and observed from different points of view. The emergence of digital technology has rendered the privacy problem increasingly current and significant. In this paper, the author discusses some aspects of privacy in cyberspace (virtual environment), dealing with its legal, technical and psychological aspects. Depending on the types of different services offered to users, there are two new forms of threat: the information collected on individuals through "visible" processing, or data collection without individuals knowing anything about it ("invisible processing"). Various items of user-information are collected 011-line in incoded form. This involves either habits observed in chat rooms or newsgroups, e-mail or directories, and e-commerce (including electronic payment). "Invisible processing" includes connection data or "log file", "traffic data" and "cookies." Protection of personal data in the cyberspace is one of the serious burning issues that must be resolved. Information privacy is a scarce commodity in cyberspace. The technical infrastructure of cyberspace makes it remarkably easy and cheap to collect substantial amounts of information identifiable to particular individuals. Privacy 011 the internet and in the cyberspace is in a fragile state. However, there is new hope for its resuscitation. Providing a web protecting the privacy of data and communication requires a unique combination of legal, policy, technical, and self- regulatory tools.

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