Increased business and personal uses of mobile devices have huge impact on criminal law, including detection, investigation and prosecution of related criminal acts in criminal procedure, and criminal substantive law, which has to appropriately define criminal acts and general principles of criminal responsibility. The latter should be defined in such manner to cover mobile device as an object of an attack, as well as means for committing a criminal act. This applies also to privacy invasions between employee and employer. Namely, employers often conduct acts that are similar to the measures foreseen in criminal procedure. If they are conducted contrary to the rules of procedure, it could also be considered a criminal act. First part of the article therefore represents the major results of a survey, conducted in business sector among 34 Slovenian organisations regarding the use of mobile devices, risks and use of appropriate measures of protection from breaching information security and privacy. These data show the state of art of threats to mobile devices and their users in Slovenia. Second part of the article deals with the threats to information security of mobile devices from the criminal law point of view, firstly regarding the regulation of certain criminal acts in Criminal Code. Furthermore, this part represents the official statistical data of Police and of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia regarding the processing of these criminal acts. This paper therefore in a comprehensive manner analyses the attacks on mobile devices (including in the relation between employee and employer) from three points of view: state of art, legal regulation and its implementation in practice.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3015146
As it is believed, technology should transform the “fallen” man into a God, although “solely” the one with prosthesis. Or it should at least conjure up some sort of earthly paradise, the substitute of that form from which Adam and Eva have been exiled once and for all. But, so far, neither stupid nor intelligent machines have redeemed humanity from the woe. Technical wonderworks in the hands of the ruling classes (and their obedient servants) are powerful tools and weapons for subjugation, exploitation, plunder, intimidation, blackmail and controlling subordinated people. However, consumer technological novelties are, to put it mildly, a mixed blessing for those who gladly buy and use them. Namely, these things also control and change their users, generally (and unfortunately), not for the better.
COBISS.SI-ID: 14463313
The article contextualizes contemporary cyber-surveillance practices in the light of Edward Snowden's revelations of massive espionage by intelligence services and shows the results of an online survey on the public perceptions of privacy in public telecommunication networks in Slovenia. The results relate to types and frequency of victimization; self-reported study on violating of the privacy of others; concern for the protection of one’s own privacy; perception of those carrying out surveillance; the value of privacy; views on abrogated data retention regulation; and awareness of personal data protection remedies. Despite growing distrust of large internet corporations and – after Edward Snowden's revelations – Intelligence agencies, the findings indicate a low degree of awareness and care for the protection of personal data. 56 percent of respondents chose internet corporations as the greatest threat to their privacy, followed by telecommunications companies (25 percent), and shops with loyalty programs (23 percent). According to chi-square and Cramer's coefficient calculations, gender correlation is weak, but men feel more threatened by foreign intelligence services and the Slovene Intelligence and Security Agency. By comparing responses before and after the Datagate affair, we noted that prior to this date, only a handful of people felt threatened by foreign or domestic intelligence agencies. An increased feeling of threat after this date is evident in men as well as women.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1841230