Title: Right to privacy and cybercrime investigation

Authors: Dmytro Gadomsky; Tykhin Alekseienko

Addresses: Eurasia Business Centre, 75 Zhylyanska St., 5th Floor, 01032 Kyiv, Ukraine ' Eurasia Business Centre, 75 Zhylyanska St., 5th Floor, 01032 Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract: Within the last decades modern society has become strongly dependent on the computer networks and ICT. However, that gave a rise to such a negative phenomenon as computer crime. Due to the rapid increase in usage of computers criminals gained a possibility to invade on more intimate spheres of life of individuals - their behaviour, life views, and habits. Trying to counter such an unlawful interference with private and family life of modern citizens competent authorities often fail to keep to the existing regulations which also leads to violations of the aforesaid right. This article gives a general view on the issue and provides with some offers regarding possible regulation.

Keywords: right to privacy; fundamental rights; human rights instruments; cyberspace; computer technologies; data processing; legitimate aims; acceptable interference; cybercrime investigation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPM.2013.053453

International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2013 Vol.6 No.1/2, pp.62 - 69

Published online: 31 Mar 2014 *

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