Abstract

The text addresses the issue of information security as exemplified by clandestine collaboration and the influence exerted by the Internal Security Agency officers upon journalists. The texts analyzes the de lege lata regulations as well as the de lege ferenda ones. As for the former, the penal provisions of the Act, that is Articles 153b–153d (Chapter 10a) are applicable, whereas as for the latter, the applicable regulations are the 2013 Bill Articles numbered 197-199 (Chapter 10). In both the 2002 Act on the Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency as well as in the 2013 draft Bill of the Internal Security Agency, the legislator penalizes the employment by the officers of the information acquired while fulfilling or in connection with official duties for the purpose of affecting the operation of public authority bodies, entrepreneurs or broadcasters, editors-in-chief, journalists and persons conducting publishing activity. Also, the text analyzes regulations concerned with the penalization of clandestine collaboration engaged in by ABW officers with a broadcaster, editor-in-chief, a journalist and a person conducting publishing activity.

Highlights

  • With regard to the de lege lata regulations, we are dealing with the Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency Act of 2002 (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 2002), 1 It is worth mentioning the program featuring J

  • As for the above-invoked crime, it is worth mentioning its main elements: (1) the subject of a crime; (2) the objective aspect; (3) the object of the crime

  • Art. 135c of the 2002 Act and Art 198 of the 2013 Bill penalize the use by a former Internal Security Agency and/or Office for State Protection of the information gathered while fulfilling or in connection with official duties for the purpose of affecting the operation of public authority bodies, entrepreneurs or broadcasters, editors-in-chief, journalists and persons conducting publishing activity

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Introduction

With regard to the de lege lata regulations, we are dealing with the Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency Act of 2002 (Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, 2002), 1 It is worth mentioning the program featuring J.

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