Privacy of Cryptocurrency Users on Legal and Normative Grounds – An Outline of Challenges and Problems in Poland

The article presents a limited outline of challenges and problems regarding the protection of privacy of cryptocurrency users in Poland. This text aims to answer the question about the scope of protection of the right to privacy guaranteed to cryptocurrency users and about the permissible limits of state interference. Among the challenges identified for the purposes of the analysis, the following should be distinguished: (1) problems resulting from the very nature of the community and the lack of trust in state institutions; (2) technological limitations in violating users’ privacy; (3) regulation of the functioning of exchange entities and legal obligations related to the KYC procedure. The analysis material consists of the provisions of: the Universal Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, where Article 47 is the lex generalis for other privacy standards.