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RADIM POLCÁK

Radim Polcák is the head of the Institute of Law and Technology at the Law Faculty at Masaryk University. He teaches and publishes in ICT law and legal theory at Masaryk University and regularly lectures at law schools in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, UK, Netherlands and Hungary. In addition, Dr. Polcak is the general chair of the Cyberspace annual international symposium; editor-in-chief of the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology; editor-in-chief of the Review of Law and Technology (Revue pro právo a technologie) and a member of the editorial boards and governing bodies of ICT-law focused scientific journals and international conferences in the Czech Republic, UK, Germany and Hungary. He is a panellist at the .eu ADR arbitration court, a member of the Appellate Tribunal of the Czech Ministry of Transport and a member of various governmental and scientific expert and advisory bodies. He also acts as an ad-hoc expert advisor to Czech, Slovak, Austrian and UK law firms, public bodies and businesses in the field of ICT law, IP law and energy law.

WIGGUM IN CYBERSPACE: LEGAL ISSUES IN CZECH AND EU CYBERSECURITY

Public protection against cyber attacks represents a relatively new set of challenges for the legal system. It combines issues directly arising from the fundamentals of constitutional law with highly specific technical problems. The paper discusses general issues of the legitimacy of state interventions in securing cyberspace and outlines the basic legal problems that have to be dealt with by EU and Czech lawmakers. In particular, the paper focuses on information duties, on the competences of state authorities and on the sensitive issue of blocking, as well as on recent developments in data retention duties.