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The disclosure of classified information to the general public played an important role in the period before the start of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This strategy involved the disclosure of classified information at an unprecedented scale and speed, with the aim of achieving specific effects, while using emerging technologies such as those associated to the open- source intelligence toolbox. The hypothesis under consideration is that the state may intentionally disclose classified information in order to shape the reactions and behaviours of other international actors. The research approach was based on the case study on the disclosure of classified information in the period July 2021– February 2022 in the context of the imminent invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The data collected from open sources were correlated with the aim of analysing in detail the disclosure strategy of classified information, its characteristics, the factors that potentiate it and its effects. The obtained results lead to the conclusion that the disclosure of classified information belongs to the tools of the ways of exercising the state power, with multiple effects, from influencing opponents to increasing the resilience of own population to the phenomenon of fake news.

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In order to better realize the secret-related information monitoring system, an algorithm based on a nonlinear network is proposed and is combined with the traditional algorithm. This article mainly analyzes the theory of nonlinear networks, designs and trains new network parameters according to their own needs, and combines the nonlinear network as a feature extractor with the existing intrusion detection and wandering detection algorithms, which greatly improves the recognition ability of traditional algorithms. The main feature of a nonlinear network is that it can extract the positional features of objects from the network while also extracting object features, that is, positioning and classification are realized in the same network. As a feature extractor, this network can not only have a higher recognition rate than background difference, hog, and other algorithms but also have a greater ability to extract position information than other convolutional neural networks. The successful application of nonlinear production network systems in TV stations at all levels has greatly improved the editing and production capability and efficiency of TV programs. How to ensure the safe, reliable, stable, orderly, and efficient operation of nonlinear production network systems requires vendors and TVS Taiwan technical staff to jointly conduct in-depth research and summarize their findings. In this article, from the perspective of TV users, information components in nonlinear production network systems are analyzed, including class, title management mode, storage space management, material management, security management, and workflow management in nonlinear systems. Make some analysis, discussion, and summaries of network system and operation management problems. The experimental results show that the nonlinear algorithm in this article has a significant advantage over the original tracking algorithm; that is, most tracking algorithms do not have the ability of category recognition during the initial tracking process, which means that these tracking algorithms cannot accurately know what they are tracking. Because the nonlinear network has the ability to output categories, whether it is initial tracking or tracking loss recovery, nonlinearity has fundamentally better advantages than other tracking algorithms. Therefore, it can be predicted that there is a strong recognition ability in the later monitoring and wandering detection. It has been proved that the nonlinear algorithm can be effectively applied to the secret information monitoring system.

Certain informations cannot and must not be available to the general public because they represent information of importance for national security or their publication could lead to great damage or endangerment of persons, property and other relations. In our legal system, such information is defined as secret data, which is further categorized into several groups based on its importance and the damage that may occur as a result of its publication. The protection of such data, by determining that they are secret, and carefully controlling who and how they give access to that data, is carried out by competent authorities in accordance with the law. The matter of defining secret data, use and protection of secret data in the Republic of Serbia is codified by the Data Secrecy Act, but other regulations are also applied in specific areas, which makes the entire positive legal framework for the protection of secret data extremely extensive. In the paper, the author analyzes the current legal framework and especially emphasizes the role played by the administrative bodies and the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in the protection of secret data.

It is indicated that the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitary and hygienic services, which are fundamental for a full life, the exercise of all human rights and ensuring human dignity, are enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Providing Services in Rural Areas in the article 21. The authors keep the goal of the article to themselves - to analyze the provision of citizens' rights to access to information about the state of water quality, in the context of global climate change and taking into account the sharp deterioration of Ukraine's ecosystem as a result of large-scale military operations. This study is devoted to issues of ensuring unimpeded access of citizens to information on the state of drinking water quality, as a component of information on the state of the environment. The article analyzes domestic legislation that regulates the issue of access to information about the state of drinking water quality and the corresponding provision of such access as an inalienable constitutional right of every citizen of Ukraine. It was established that the population's access to information about the state of drinking water is gradually limited, which poses threats to both human health and the natural environment. This is especially unacceptable during the war, when the ecological situation ends literally every hour. Consistently, relations in the field of drinking water use and protection require unified legal regulation at the national and international levels. Thanks to this, conditions are created at the legislative level for open access of citizens to information about the state of water resources, sources of water supply, as well as raising the level of public awareness in the field of protection of environmental rights, especially the right to free access to information about the state of drinking water. This approach will contribute not only to the protection of public health, but also to the preservation of the natural environment and the achievement of sustainable development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research investigates the reasons behind the surge in the number of expulsion cases awaiting resolution by the Constitutional Court of Hungary during the initial year of the pandemic by conducting an analysis. Identity between the cases examined can be discovered along issues related to factual and legal merits, which in several cases is the cause of the problem and the effect of which draws attention to the right to an effective remedy. The study focuses on the factual and legal issues of decisions on expulsion and entry and residence bans from the point of view of legally established third-country nationals residing in Hungary. The study explores Constitutional Court and high court decisions of the period compared to the relevant case law of the Supreme Court in a comprehensible manner and digs up the roots of the identified common problems. Exploring the legal basis in the light of basic international and EU law obligations, both access to classified documents and a system of appeal against decisions constitute a set of complex, completely independent and unrelated procedures, that ultimately means that the facts on which the expulsion is based, which are also particularly difficult to ascertain, cannot be effectively disputed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article poses the following research question: what forms and methods of exercising judicial power in relation to intelligence services serve as a litmus test for democratization or autocratization? A democratic system presupposes that the state’s activities are subject to judicial oversight. This stems from the concept of democracy as a regime governed by the rule of law, while arbitrariness characterizes the essence of authoritarianism. However, the oversight of intelligence services can be a deceptive indicator of the level of democracy, considering that the relationship between the controlling judiciary and intelligence services mirrors the recurring discourse on the role of the executive during a state of emergency. Threats to democracy in the 21st century are no longer limited to conventional armed conflicts or natural disasters governed by state of emergency procedures but increasingly resemble a perpetual confrontation between state structures and terrorism, hybrid conflicts, cyber conflicts, and proxy wars. Even with extreme forms of extrajudicial detention implemented during I & II World War, Western constitutionalism has not relinquished the rule of law, yet it has long tolerated solutions that leave the activities of intelligence services beyond effective control by other branches of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Classified information is information of vital importance to the State, which must be protected against disclosure, misuse, damage, unauthorized reproduction, destruction, loss or theft in the interest of the State. At present, there are four levels of classification. For each classification level, precise requirements are laid down for the material of the walls, partitions and ceilings of the rooms in which classified information is stored. Several types of materials are defined for each classification level. The objective of this study was to test and determine whether the different types of materials proposed for the Confidential level meet the same level of resistance. A drop weight test via pendulum was used to determine the resistance. A 50 kg weight was used to break through a 60 × 100 cm sample. The impact of the weight was on the exact center of the sample. The result of the tests was that to break through samples of different materials, large differences in the drop height of the weight were required. The most resistant was the specimen made of reinforced concrete, which required 3 impacts from a height of 80 cm to break through. On the contrary, the least resistant were the specimens made of masonry of autoclaved aerated concrete, where after 2 falls from a height of 5 cm, the sample broke into 2 parts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to analyze the issue of respecting the right to a fair trial in the situation where the effectiveness of the defence depends on documents containing classified information. There is a delicate issue regarding the vulnerability of guarantees of the right to a fair trial in order to ensure the right of defense, given that the parties' lawyers should have access to all the evidence in the file. Obtaining an ORNISS certificate is the solution offered by law, but to really get one can be problematic. Based on various situations occurred during the proceedings, the whole legal regime of classified information and its influence on the conduct of the trial, in the qualitative requirements of fairness imposed by the Constitution and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, have been subject to the constitutional review exercised by the CCR. This article aims to summarize the case-law of the Constitutional Court, drawing the appropriate conclusions from it, in order to find the most efficient way to harmonize the need to protect the national security by classifying certain pieces of information with the right to access to public information and with the constitutional and conventional imperative of respect for the right to a fair trial.

The relevance of the publication is explained by the fact that one of the main factors of the inefficiency of existing criminal law means of protection of information with limited access is an imperfection of the text of the current Criminal Code of Ukraine, as evidenced by the lack of a systematic approach of the legislator to the legal structure of “disclosure of information”. The purpose of the research is to conduct a comparative legal analysis of the normative regulation of disclosure of information with limited access and tangential terms in criminal law for technical and legal improvement of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. To achieve it, the methods of system-structural analysis, semantic, dogmatic, Aristotelian and classification methods were used. The research considers the correlation of the content of all criminal law terms relating to the concept of disclosure, which are roughly divided into several groups: alternative acts (collection, receipt, modification, destruction, etc.), collected acts (violation of secrecy/prohibition, use), synonymous acts (distribution, disclosure, provision of access, transmission). The alternative acts of “collection” and “possession” have been identified as preparatory to “disclosure” if there is a corresponding purpose for the disclosure of the collected information, and, thus, they cannot be included in the criminal law content of the act of “disclosure” itself. It has been established that the existence of two mutually exclusive (related) legal elements of criminal offences – wrongful acquisition of information (a “truncated element” which does not give legal significance to further actions of storage, dissemination or other use of information) and disclosure (by a person who has lawfully acquired the information) – may be promising by addressing the relevant technical and legal deficiencies. The “disclosure” of relevant information has been demonstrated to constitute a “violation of secrecy” and a “violation of the prohibition on using information”, but such definitions should not be used in the text of the criminal law due to their lack of specificity. Established that the content of the concepts of “disclosure”, “spreading”, and “dissemination” of information is identical. The study is recommended for use in improving Ukraine’s criminal law and for law enforcement officials in qualifying.

The research investigates the reasons behind the surge in the number of expulsion cases awaiting resolution by the Constitutional Court of Hungary during the initial year of the pandemic by conducting an analysis. Identity between the cases examined can be discovered along issues related to factual and legal merits, which in several cases is the cause of the problem and the effect of which draws attention to the right to an effective remedy. The study focuses on the factual and legal issues of decisions on expulsion and entry and residence bans from the point of view of legally established third-country nationals residing in Hungary. The study explores Constitutional Court and high court decisions of the period compared to the relevant case law of the Supreme Court in a comprehensible manner and digs up the roots of the identified common problems. Exploring the legal basis in the light of basic international and EU law obligations, both access to classified documents and a system of appeal against decisions constitute a set of complex, completely independent and unrelated procedures, that ultimately means that the facts on which the expulsion is based, which are also particularly difficult to ascertain, cannot be effectively disputed.

This article reviews forty years of executive orders on classified information to compare what has changed over time. Over time, scholars note a negative impact on their work and what the public knows. This begs the question of what librarians can do in response to the limitations placed on access to information via executive orders. How librarians address these issues and how we can frame the issues in our approaches rounds out the discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Records designated as classified at the time of their creation form a very significant part of public records produced by state and public administration bodies in a broad sense. At the same time, they represent a significant part of historical source production a part of which should be permanently preserved in the relevant public archives. Their information content and informative value for future historical science is in many cases highly qualitatively superior. However, the phenomenon of classified records, including at least minimum possible access to them is also of fundamental relevance to contemporary society and the maintaining of a functioning quality democracy. Very often, however, what is missing is a deeper debate over records classification as such. For example, how do intelligence services manage their records? Are they being arbitrarily destroyed? Do they remain classified unnecessarily and for too long? The legal systems of most countries, including those with advanced democratic systems, now exert minimum real pressure on the declassification of once classified material. The following comparative study addresses the phenomenon of records classification and their declassification in some developed democracies with advanced archival systems; it also focuses on some of the features of the system's post-1945 historical development, particularly in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, partly also in France, Germany, Sweden, and adds a look at the situation in the Czech Republic representing one of the post-communist countries in Central Europe. The study uses the specific examples of the USA and the United Kingdom to demonstrate in what respects archives and historians can act as an important factor in the process of management and declassification of classified records, and how they can also be an important element of democracy in this sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Defence Archive in Pretoria is the repository of all military documents generated by the Union Defence Force, the South African Defence Force and the South African National Defence Force. This makes it the foremost source of primary information for researchers of South African military history. However, an almost total ban on access to archival documents from 1 January 1970 onwards complicates research into later periods. In fact, anyone researching post-1970 military-related topics has to apply for access to archival documents through the Promotion of Access to Information Act. The traditional weapon in the armoury of the historian – the systematic trawling of archives – is thereby negated, while the methodology of post-1970 historical research differs significantly from commonly accepted historical practices. Finding aids, the only access route to classified information in this analogue archive, offer only the briefest descriptions of the content of files, and researchers need almost esoteric intuition to identify documents that are even remotely relevant to their research. Additionally, a fee is payable for declassification, and the process can take several months to complete. This review article reports on the theoretical workings of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, and uses an actual research example as a case study to illustrate the practical implications of conducting research at the Department of Defence Archive in South Africa based on classified military documentation.

Aim: To present relationships resulting from legal regulations impacting the effectiveness of critical infrastructure protection, which is a part of the national security system. An auxiliary objective was a historical analysis illustrating the process of creating critical infrastructure in a modern form in the world and in Poland. Project and methods: Article is based on the principles of functionalism theory and using literature analysis, expert interviews, participating observation in the organised Critical Infrastructure Forums, inference and deduction. This made it possible to identify the directions for improving the functioning of critical infrastructure protection in terms of institutional cooperation and the impact of infrastructure on the national security system. Results: Removal of critical infrastructure protection vulnerabilities as a contribution to the elimination of a weak link in the national security system in the context of assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the national security system. Conclusions: There is a need to create clear legislation and to integrate security entities in terms of institutional cooperation in the protection of critical infrastructure. This is related to the fact that in an organisation, which is a particular form of team activities, we often encounter chaos intensified by solutions which are the more inaccurate, the less the formation mechanism of disturbing factors is known. Then we experience only the consequences of their impact, responding according to the circumstances.

In the relation with international bodies, the Romanian authorities must observe its own rules related to security of confidential information, and in the relations with other authorities, branches, companies from Romania, they have the obligation to observe the national legislation. This work mechanism, with two different systems of information security, imposes, on level of competent Romanian authorities, some internal rules of equivalence of confidentiality levels, approved by ORNISS. As national authority in the field of security of classified information, ORNISS must know and hold a record of all equivalence regulations of confidentiality levels operated by different international bodies with those of internal legislation.

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A key issue for every state is the protection of information about its resources that should not be made public for various reasons, including national security reasons in particular. The article discusses the problem of its lawful protection against unauthorised disclosure in relation to emergency situations. The author claims that the discrepancies in this area result from both the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Classified Information, which allows for excessive arbitrariness, and the shortages caused by the actions of persons working in the public administration sector. A slight amendment to the current legislation, combined with training on the marking of materials that require actual protection, may ensure the systemic enhancement of the protection of classified information and thus, national security, without excessively limiting the transparency of public life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over recent years, the incidence of data breaches and cyberattacks has increased significantly. This has highlighted the need for sectoral organizations to share information about such events so that lessons can be learned to mitigate the prevalence and severity of cyber incidents against other organizations. Sectoral organizations embody a governance relationship between cross-sector public and private entities, called public-private partnerships (PPPs). However, organizations are hesitant to share such information due to a lack of trust and business-critical confidentially issues. This problem occurs because of the absence of any protocols that guarantee privacy protection and protect sensitive information. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel protocol, Putra-Ramli Secure Cyber-incident Information Sharing (PURA-SCIS), to secure cyber incident information sharing. PURA-SCIS has been designed to offer exceptional data and privacy protection and run on the cloud services of sectoral organizations. The relationship between organizations in PURA-SCIS is symmetrical, where the entities must collectively maintain the security of classified cyber incident information. Furthermore, the organizations must be legitimate entities in the PURA-SCIS protocol. The Scyther tool was used for protocol verification in PURA-SCIS. The experimental results showed that the proposed PURA-SCIS protocol provided good security properties, including public verifiability for all entities, blockless verification, data privacy preservation, identity privacy preservation and traceability, and private information sharing. PURA-SCIS also provided a high degree of confidentiality to protect the security and integrity of cyber-incident-related information exchanged among sectoral organizations via cloud services.