International Regulatory Vacuum of Cyber Espionage

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200529.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cyber espionage, diplomatic law, sovereignty, non-intervention

Abstract

Cyber espionage employs computer network to gather illegal access to confidential information from government or certain organization. The advance development of technology acknowledges the sophisticated and illegal means of receiving highly confidential data or information for certain purposes that risk the national security of a state. However, international law is still silent to define and regulate cyber espionage especially at the time of peace. By applying the normative legal methodology, this study analyzes the current practices of cyber espionage in the 21st century and how far the international law could reach these illegal activities. This study concludes that the basic diplomatic norms shall be applied to cyber espionage. It strictly in contravention with the principle of non-intervention and sovereignty of a state. Moreover, this study proposed the international legal framework to regulate cyber espionage.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dodik Setiawan Nur Heriyanto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - International Regulatory Vacuum of Cyber Espionage
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.022
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.022
ID  - Heriyanto2020
ER  -