Etika i pravo u cyber-prostoru
Ethics and law in cyberspace

Summary/Abstract: Extremely rapid changes in technology prevent the imposition of certain laws in cyberspace. This is the reason why many organisations nowadays propose and advocate for global coordination of legal solutions. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that reliability and trust, as social capital, are acquiring new contents and significance with the intensification of business activity on the Internet, which means that legal ethics must become an integral part of this domain. Colonisation of cyberspace is driven by both technology and business challenges. Technology is simultaneously a threat and a solution, because on the one hand it challenges the existing legal and regulatory systems, while on the other it offers solutions to many of those threats, including security, integrity and authenticity. The initial premise of this paper is that we can talk only about the optimal level of management and, therefore, reliability and security in cyberspace. An optimal level of management implies the ability of influential interest groups in cyberspace to divert and/or prevent various forms of mala fide behaviour. This implies a thorough review of classical ethical theories, both deontological and teleological, which are acquiring new contents. This is why cyber ethics is an inevitable content of the theory and practice of business law that is evolving within the framework of expansion of politics, economy and culture into cyberspace.

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