On 28th October 2011 the Justice Development Foundation held its first public discussion dedicated to issues which had been studies by its experts. The discussion addressed the ‘Legal Challenges of the Information Society‘ connected to the nature and the regulation of internet relations, the impact of the virtual environment on the contencts and practice of rights and some specific breaches of law which took place in internet.
Stoyan Stavru outlined issues related to the access to information in internet, the right to manage personally published or personally relevant information, management of internet-identities (profiles, accounts, etc.), virtual social networks and some pathological developments of virtual relations, such as deceitful influence over public opinion by management of fictitious or stolen profiles (astroturfing), unauthorised access to personal data, profile-stealing, cyberbulling, etc. Special attention was paid to the legal interpretation of the injury which is caused in cases of scareware, unrevealed personalization (filtering) of search-results, fishing.
Ivo Emanuilov presented intermediate results of researches related to virtual contracting and electronic documentation. The discussion focused on the freedom to accept in whole the general conditions in negotiationg a customary contract, the form of the acceptance, the nature of the negotiations in chat-communication, case-law on Electronic Document and Electornic Signature Act.
The discussion also touched issues of electronic tracing of convicts and e-justice. The event was attended by the Deputy-Minister of Justice, the President of the National Union of Legal Consultants, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, ‘Law and Internet’ Foundation, Bulgarian League for Human Rights with the UN, law firms, banks, Regional and City Prosecution offices in Sofia, Sofia University, Varna Free University, etc.
The round-table took place in the Conference Hall of the Supreme Court of Cassation in the Palace of Justice in Sofia.
The Justice Development Foundation expresses its gratitude to the SCC for its hospitality and to all its partners for the support they grant to its studies.
