Functioning of the State Security Service and constitutional guarantees of individual rights and freedoms

The article deals with the issue of a newly formed formation called the State Protection Service, which was established in place of the Government Protection Bureau. The author of the text presents the tasks assigned to the formation and the privileges granted to perform these tasks. He draws attention to the extension of the competences of the formation with the possibility of conducting operational and reconnaissance activities. It presents the threats posed by the functioning of a number of services authorized to secretly obtain, process and transmit information and the impact of these activities on the constitutional rights and freedoms of the individual.