Abstract
Informatisation of the private and public sector is a significant social phenomenon whose first wave was noted in the 1990s. With the gradual development and availability of ICT means, traditional personal or post communication has been replaced by electronic correspondence because of the user´s comfort as well as financial savings.
The Czech strategy of information society formation is represented e.g. by the e-Government Project whose key tool is electronic communication via data boxes. The Act No. 300/2008 Coll.
On Electronic Acts and Authorised Conversion of Documents establishes data boxes for public authorities, legal entities formed by the law, legal entities incorporated in the Commercial Register and trustees in bankruptcy. After a three-month transitional trial period, since November 1, 2009, communication via data boxes is carried out reciprocally among public authorities and in the case of service by public authorities to other users of data boxes.
Other entities than public authorities do not thus have the duty to send documents from their data boxes. Compulsory establishment of data boxes is often criticized mainly by the private sector as many enterpreneurs perceive them as a means of carrying over costs of public authority to private entities.
As problematic issues are viewed especially the duty of frequent password changes and the fact that data boxes are only short-term deposits of data messages.