Policing the Cyberspace: Jurisprudential Approaches

The study, Policing the Cyberspace: Cyber Jurisprudential Approaches, studies complex tasks and legal measures needed for governing an informational environment. Given that cyberspace is currently a hotbed of crime including hacking, ransomware, and fraud among others the paper explores how legal concepts can be used to address transnational crime. Employing a qualitative methodology that includes analysis of academic literature, legal rulings, and case studies, the research addresses four key questions: opportunities and challenges in the development of legal frameworks, and potential issues with cybersecurity and its legal regulation, including the current state of cyber laws, principal ethical problems with privacy and freedom that may appear in legislation, effects of the International cooperation in the sphere of cybersecurity and the role of artificial intelligence in the legislation. Issues that are identified include privacy, surveillance, sovereignty of international laws and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence. Most of the ideas of the given study are focused on the conditionality of the need for a dynamic approach to the development of juridical concepts that should link security with the respect of personal freedom, enhance the cooperation of states, and take into account the possibilities of technologies safely. Proposals outlined are the creation of an ethical framework for surveillance technologies, empowering under-represented countries and interdisciplinary cooperation. The policy implications of this work are to assist policymaker’s, law enforcement agencies and hence legal practitioners in establishing sound legal frameworks for cyberspace governance while at the same time preserving freedom.