After enactment of the Electronic Communication Act of 2005, there has been increased regulation in the electronic communications sector. The purpose of this study is to investigate how ICASA ensured regulatory quality when formulating regulations. Regulatory quality is an effective way of ensuring that new or amended regulations achieve they intended objectives. Failure to address regulatory quality may result in ineffective and costly regulations that negatively impact the electronic communications sector. This study revealed that there are regulatory quality gaps in the regulatory process followed by ICASA. The study established that there was lack of transparency and consistency in the process followed by ICASA when formulating regulations. The regulatory decisions made by ICASA were not evidence based as no ex-ante regulatory impact assessment was conducted. The regulatory environment within which ICASA operated was not conducive to enabling regulatory quality. The main factors contributing to an unsuitable regulatory environment were identified as prescriptive sector legislation, ineffective institutional arrangements, and ICASAs‘ lack of the capacity and resources.

Magister Legum - LLM / This research will analyse legislation, case law, law commission papers and reports, as well as academic commentary on electronic evidence in South Africa, Canada and England. A comparative analysis will be conducted in order to determine whether South Africa is adequately regulating electronic evidence in light of international and foreign law.

This study revolves around the admissibility of electronic evidence obtained during forensic accounting investigations. Electronic evidence is problematic for the forensic accountant, in that the courts have difficulties with the admissibility of electronic evidence. The research method used in this dissertation is a literature study or literature review. Firstly, the study aims to define a forensic accountant. The need for the forensic accountant is determined, as well as the definition and the roles and responsibilities of the forensic accountant. The study further aims to establish how the forensic accountant is regulated in South Africa. Secondly, this study aims to provide a historical overview of South African legislation that addresses electronic evidence. Applicable legislation is the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, the Law of Evidence Amendment Act 45 of 1988, the Civil Proceedings Evidence Act 25 of 1965 and the repealed Computer Evidence Act 57 of 1983. To determine the challenges that arise from electronic evidence, it is critical to understand how electronic evidence is classified in terms of the traditional forms of evidence. Documentary evidence, real evidence and evidence as the product of an apparatus, with specific reference to electronic evidence, is discussed for the purpose of this study. Hearsay evidence, the originality of electronic evidence, as well as the authenticity and reliability of electronic evidence hamper the admissibility of electronic evidence. The impact of legislation on the aforementioned difficulties is considered in this study. The problematic nature of electronic evidence already creates challenges during legal proceedings. The forensic accountant can follow certain steps and procedures to better the chances of the admissibility of electronic evidence. This study establishes how electronic evidence should be gathered, stored and analysed by the forensic accountant in order to be admissible legal proceedings. Lastly, this study aims to determine how the UNCITRAL model, on which the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 has been based, compares to the act (25 of 2002) itself. The legislation addressing electronic evidence in Canada and Australia is also considered. / MCom (Forensic Accountancy), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014.

This study revolves around the admissibility of electronic evidence obtained during forensic accounting investigations. Electronic evidence is problematic for the forensic accountant, in that the courts have difficulties with the admissibility of electronic evidence. The research method used in this dissertation is a literature study or literature review. Firstly, the study aims to define a forensic accountant. The need for the forensic accountant is determined, as well as the definition and the roles and responsibilities of the forensic accountant. The study further aims to establish how the forensic accountant is regulated in South Africa. Secondly, this study aims to provide a historical overview of South African legislation that addresses electronic evidence. Applicable legislation is the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, the Law of Evidence Amendment Act 45 of 1988, the Civil Proceedings Evidence Act 25 of 1965 and the repealed Computer Evidence Act 57 of 1983. To determine the challenges that arise from electronic evidence, it is critical to understand how electronic evidence is classified in terms of the traditional forms of evidence. Documentary evidence, real evidence and evidence as the product of an apparatus, with specific reference to electronic evidence, is discussed for the purpose of this study. Hearsay evidence, the originality of electronic evidence, as well as the authenticity and reliability of electronic evidence hamper the admissibility of electronic evidence. The impact of legislation on the aforementioned difficulties is considered in this study. The problematic nature of electronic evidence already creates challenges during legal proceedings. The forensic accountant can follow certain steps and procedures to better the chances of the admissibility of electronic evidence. This study establishes how electronic evidence should be gathered, stored and analysed by the forensic accountant in order to be admissible legal proceedings. Lastly, this study aims to determine how the UNCITRAL model, on which the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 has been based, compares to the act (25 of 2002) itself. The legislation addressing electronic evidence in Canada and Australia is also considered. / MCom (Forensic Accountancy), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014.

Em tempos correntes, importantes processos de comunicação (escrita ou verbal) e armazenamento de informações aperfeiçoam-se por intermédio dos meios eletrônicos. À medida que o acesso à rede mundial de computadores (internet) se intensifica em progressões geométricas, multiplicam-se também os dados intercambiados por internautas e emergem técnicas cada vez mais avançadas de coleta e processamento de informações. Atividades rotineiras como a navegação e o envio de mensagens eletrônicas realizam-se apenas à custa de imenso trânsito de informações; como pegadas deixadas pelo caminho, os dados comutados nestas atuações permitem reconstituir os caminhos e atividades empreendidos na rede. A salvaguarda destas informações afigura-se imprescindível à vida privada e demanda rígida disciplina normativa. Não se trata apenas de impedir que dados de tráfego ou de conteúdo sejam empregados contrariamente ao Direito, mas de assegurar também que, em situações excepcionais descritas pelo legislador, sirvam para corroborar investigações criminais. Pretende-se neste trabalho um exame sistemático dos principais meios de busca da prova digital, com o escopo de delimitar o regime jurídico das intervenções nas comunicações eletrônicas e das medidas de apreensão de dados automatizados. Neste mister, inafastável analisar a disciplina constitucional do sigilo da comunicação de dados (CF, art. 5o, inciso XII) e investigar o fundamento legal das autorizações judiciais para a obtenção de informações eletrônicas. Sob perspectiva eminentemente interdisciplinar, cumpre discorrer sobre noções de Cibernética, telecomunicações, Informática, liberdade como autonomia recíproca de acesso à informação e comunicações eletrônicas, imprescindíveis à compreensão deste novo espaço do agir humano: o entorno digital. No campo da hermenêutica constitucional, necessário perquirir relevantes aspectos da vida privada e da proteção da intimidade antecedentes históricos, direito à privacy, hodierna projeção como autodeterminação informativa, teoria das três esferas e inviolabilidade das comunicações que permitirão opinar sobre a constitucionalidade das interceptações de dados em processos informacionais. Em sequência, devem ser conceituados os dados digitais e suas respectivas categorias, as técnicas de investigação penal e o resguardo de fontes de provas digitais. Sem deixar de contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento da normativa legal vigente, de rigor o exame de duas ordens distintas de incorporação dos dados ao processo: a intervenção no fluxo comunicativo destinada a captar dados e a apreensão física do dispositivo informático que alberga as informações. Como meios de busca de prova, esses procedimentos devem ser estudados de maneira individualizada, a partir de aspectos como conceito, regulação, natureza jurídica, finalidade, condicionantes legais (pressupostos, requisitos e limites), direito de defesa, juízo de proporcionalidade e controle. Por fim, tecidas as necessárias considerações sobre a conservação, eficácia probatória e valoração dos conteúdos automatizados, impõe-se indagar acerca dos efeitos decorrentes de operações ilícitas perpetradas sobre dados digitais. / In these days, important communication process (written or verbal) and information storage improve through electronic means. While the access to the computer worldwide web (internet) grows in geometrical progression, it also increases the number of webusers data and more and more advanced technics of gathering and processing information emerge. Routine activities such as sailing or sending electronic messages only happen due to the vast transit of information; like footprints left on the way, the data commutated in these actions allow to re-establish the ways and activities undertaken in the web. The security of these information figures indispensable to private life and demands a severe normative discipline. It is not only a matter of preventing that traffic or contents data may be used against the law. But also to assure that, in exceptional situation described by the legislator, it can be useful to confirm criminal investigation. This work intends a systematic examination of the main ways of searching digital evidence, with the purpose of delimitate the judiciary system of the intervention in electronic and apprehension extent of automation data. So, it must be analysed the constitutional discipline of communication data secrecy (CF, art. 5º, inciso XII) and even to investigate the legal foundation of judicial authorization to obtain electronic information. Under a strictly multidiscipline perspective, one must consider some notions of Cybernetics, telecommunication, Informatics, freedom as reciprocal autonomy access to electronic information and communication, which are essential to understand this new area of human act; the digital place. In the field of constitutional interpretation of law, it is necessary to scrutinize considerable aspects of private life and intimacy protection historical antecedents, privacy right, actual projection such as informative selfdetermination, three sphere theory and inviolability of communication so that they will permit to express an opinion about the constitutionality of interception data in informative proceedings. Sequentially, conceptualize the digital data and their respective categories, penal investigation technics and the protection of digital evidence sources. There may be a cooperation to a better improvement of the effective legal normative, an accurate examination of two different disposition of data incorporation to the process, the intervention in the communicative flow just to receive data and physical apprehension of the informatic device which contains information. As a quest in resources of proof, these proceedings must be examined in a individual way, starting with the aspects such as concept, regulation, juridical nature, finality, legal conditioning (presupposed, requisite and limits), right of defence, judgement of proportionality and control. At last, taken into everything about the conservation, evidential efficiency and the value of automatize contents still we have to enquire about the results of illicit operations perpetrated on digital data.

Šiame darbe taikant tiek teorinius, tiek empirinius metodus, detaliai analizuojamas žmogaus teisių institutas, naujoji asmens duomenų apsauga Lietuvos elektroninėje erdvėje, kuri kol kas mokslinėje literatūroje buvo aptariama tik fragmentiškai, nors viešojoje erdvėje ši tema nuolat susilaukia pačių įvairiausių vertinimų. Nors darbe daugiausia koncentruojamasi į asmens duomenų prevencinių priemonių teisinio reglamentavimo prieštaringumus, atkreipiamas dėmesys ir į ginčytinų teisės normų pagrindu kylantį galimą konstitucingumo klausimą. Darbą sudaro dvi dalys. Pirmojoje aptariamos bendrosios žmogaus teisių instuto tendencijos: pateikiamos įvairios žmogaus teisių ir laisvių koncepcijos interpretacijos, istorinė analizė ir vaidmuo socialinėje aplinkoje, charakterizuojama žmogaus teisių apsaugai reikšmingų teisės normų reglamentacija, įvertinamas galimas teisės normų kolizijos atvejis dėl Direktyvos 2006/24/EB integracijos į Lietuvos teisyną. Antrojoje darbo dalyje identifikuojamos apsaugos priemonių ir žmogaus teisės į privatumą teisinio reglamentavimo ir praktikos problemos. Darbe nustatyta, jog telekomunikacijų teikimo bendrovės rizikuoja pažeisti žmogaus teisę į privatumą asmens duomenų apsaugos srityje dėl nepakankamai sureguliuotų priemonių internervencijos. Be to, atkreiptinas dėmesys į tai, kad naujosios duomenų apsaugos teisės normos gali prieštarauti Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucijos saugomoms vertybėms. Atsižvelgiant į nustatytas asmens duomenų apsaugos politikos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This work, using both theoretical and empirical methods, in detail analyses The Institute of Human Rights, the new personal data protection in Lithuania’s electronic communications, which in scientific literature has only been discussed in fragmentary, although publicly this theme constantly receives a wide range of estimates. Although the work is mostly concentrated on contradictions in regulations of personal data preventative measures, it also draws attention to the possible constitutionality issue raised on the basis of controversial rules of law. The work consists of two parts. The first part discusses the general tendencies of The Institute of Human Rights: provides various interpretations on The Concept of Human Rights, historic analysis and their role in the social environment; characterizes rules of law regulations that are significant to The Human Rights protection; assesses the possible conflict of laws in the case of Directive 2006/24/EC integration into the Lithuania’s statute-book. The second part identifies legal and practical issues of The Human Right to Privacy and security measures. The paper found, that telecommunications companies are at risk to violate The Human Right to Privacy in the field of personal data protection due to intervention of insufficiently regulated measures. In addition, attention is drawn to the fact that the new rules of law on data protection may contradict the values protected by Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania... [to full text]

Elektroniese kommunikasie en handel is 'n verskynsel wat eksponensieel toegeneem het oar die laaste dekade saammet die ontwikkeling en uitbreiding van die Internet. Ten einde kompeterend te wees in die internasionale arena is dit belangrik dat Suid-Afrika 'n klimaat skep waarin elektroniese handel kan floreer. Daar bestaan egter die perspesie dat die huidige regsbedeling onvanpas en onvoldoende is om die kwessies wat ontstaan as gevolg van elektroniese handel te kan hanteer. In 1996 het die kommissie van die Verenigde Nasies gemoeid met internasionale handel, UNCITRAL die Mode/wet oor Elektroniese Handel gefinaliseer. Sederdien is die Modelwet opgeneem in wetgewing of het wetgewing be"invloed in verskeie Iande. Een van die onderliggende beginsels waarop die Mode/wet gebaseer is, is "funksionele gelykheid" ten einde met snel veranderende tegnologie tred te hou. Hierdie beginsel behels dat in ons soektog na regsoplosssings, papiergebaseerde oplossings nie netso nageboots moet word nie maar dat daar eerder gestreef word na ekwivalente regsoplossings binne die tegnologies raamwerk. Die Wet op Elektroniese Kommunikasie en Transaksies is die SuidAfrikaanse antwoord op hierdie internasionale verwikkelinge. Die oogmerk van hierdie skripsie is om artikels 11 tot 13, 18 en 19 van die Wet te bestudeer en te vergelyk met die Mode/wet. Verder om te ondersoek tot watter mate die doelwitte van die Groenskrif behaal is en in welke mate die Wet die behoeftes van die breer gemeenskap aanspreek, soos dit blyk uit die kommentaar op die Groenskrif. Die Suid-Afrikaanse benadering is gebaseer op internasionale voorbeelde en afwykings daarvan word ook bespreek. Hoewel die persepsie bestaan dat die Suid-Afrikaanse reg nie toegerus is om die veranderings te kan hanteer nie, is dit meerendeels net 'n persepsie. Suid-Afrika beskik oor 'n inherent aanpasbare gemenereg. In my opinie, sou opskrifstelling in 'n elektroniese omgewing nie 'n probleem geskep het binne die gemenereg nie. Dit blyk dat meer onsekerheid oor die aard van handtekeninge bestaan. Dit is waarskynlik dat gevorderde elektroniese handtekeninge (soos in die Wet bespreek) in ieder geval erken sou word. Die nuwe Suid-Afrikaanse Wet oor elektroniese handel ruim egter enige onsekerheid uit die weg. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Wet maak gebruik van verskeie internasionale bronne maar die UNCITRAL Modelwet dien as vertrekpunt. Daar blyk eenstemmigheid in Amerika, die Europese Unie en Australie te wees dat "funksionele gelykheid" die beste manier is om veranderende tegnologie te hanteer. Die beginsel van "funksionele gelykheid" is die goue draad wat deur nie aileen die UNCITRAL Mode/wet maar ook deur die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing geweef is. Die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing voeg verskeie beskermingsmeganismes ten einde verbruikers te beskerm teen die gevare van 'gesiglose handel'. Elektroniese skrif word as die ekwivalent van skrif op papier erken. SuidAfrikaanse wetgewing identifiseer die volgende basiese funksies van handtekeninge, naamlik: • Om die persoon te identifiseer; en • Om die persoon se goedkeuring van die inligting te kommunikeer. 'n Addisionele vereiste dat elektroniese handtekeninge so betroubaar as wat gepas was onder die omstandighede moet wees, word bygevoeg. Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing spreek oak die kwessies van notariele parktyk, oorspronklikes, sertifisering en geregistreerde pas aan. In geheel behoort die bepalings rakende vormvereistes positief ontvang te word in die mark aangesien "funksionele gelykheid" behoorlik geimplementeer word en 'n juiste basis is. / Thesis (LL.M. (Import and Export Law))--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2003

Elektroniese kommunikasie en handel is 'n verskynsel wat eksponensieel toegeneem het oar die laaste dekade saammet die ontwikkeling en uitbreiding van die Internet. Ten einde kompeterend te wees in die internasionale arena is dit belangrik dat Suid-Afrika 'n klimaat skep waarin elektroniese handel kan floreer. Daar bestaan egter die perspesie dat die huidige regsbedeling onvanpas en onvoldoende is om die kwessies wat ontstaan as gevolg van elektroniese handel te kan hanteer. In 1996 het die kommissie van die Verenigde Nasies gemoeid met internasionale handel, UNCITRAL die Mode/wet oor Elektroniese Handel gefinaliseer. Sederdien is die Modelwet opgeneem in wetgewing of het wetgewing be"invloed in verskeie Iande. Een van die onderliggende beginsels waarop die Mode/wet gebaseer is, is "funksionele gelykheid" ten einde met snel veranderende tegnologie tred te hou. Hierdie beginsel behels dat in ons soektog na regsoplosssings, papiergebaseerde oplossings nie netso nageboots moet word nie maar dat daar eerder gestreef word na ekwivalente regsoplossings binne die tegnologies raamwerk. Die Wet op Elektroniese Kommunikasie en Transaksies is die SuidAfrikaanse antwoord op hierdie internasionale verwikkelinge. Die oogmerk van hierdie skripsie is om artikels 11 tot 13, 18 en 19 van die Wet te bestudeer en te vergelyk met die Mode/wet. Verder om te ondersoek tot watter mate die doelwitte van die Groenskrif behaal is en in welke mate die Wet die behoeftes van die breer gemeenskap aanspreek, soos dit blyk uit die kommentaar op die Groenskrif. Die Suid-Afrikaanse benadering is gebaseer op internasionale voorbeelde en afwykings daarvan word ook bespreek. Hoewel die persepsie bestaan dat die Suid-Afrikaanse reg nie toegerus is om die veranderings te kan hanteer nie, is dit meerendeels net 'n persepsie. Suid-Afrika beskik oor 'n inherent aanpasbare gemenereg. In my opinie, sou opskrifstelling in 'n elektroniese omgewing nie 'n probleem geskep het binne die gemenereg nie. Dit blyk dat meer onsekerheid oor die aard van handtekeninge bestaan. Dit is waarskynlik dat gevorderde elektroniese handtekeninge (soos in die Wet bespreek) in ieder geval erken sou word. Die nuwe Suid-Afrikaanse Wet oor elektroniese handel ruim egter enige onsekerheid uit die weg. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Wet maak gebruik van verskeie internasionale bronne maar die UNCITRAL Modelwet dien as vertrekpunt. Daar blyk eenstemmigheid in Amerika, die Europese Unie en Australie te wees dat "funksionele gelykheid" die beste manier is om veranderende tegnologie te hanteer. Die beginsel van "funksionele gelykheid" is die goue draad wat deur nie aileen die UNCITRAL Mode/wet maar ook deur die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing geweef is. Die Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing voeg verskeie beskermingsmeganismes ten einde verbruikers te beskerm teen die gevare van 'gesiglose handel'. Elektroniese skrif word as die ekwivalent van skrif op papier erken. SuidAfrikaanse wetgewing identifiseer die volgende basiese funksies van handtekeninge, naamlik: • Om die persoon te identifiseer; en • Om die persoon se goedkeuring van die inligting te kommunikeer. 'n Addisionele vereiste dat elektroniese handtekeninge so betroubaar as wat gepas was onder die omstandighede moet wees, word bygevoeg. Suid-Afrikaanse wetgewing spreek oak die kwessies van notariele parktyk, oorspronklikes, sertifisering en geregistreerde pas aan. In geheel behoort die bepalings rakende vormvereistes positief ontvang te word in die mark aangesien "funksionele gelykheid" behoorlik geimplementeer word en 'n juiste basis is. / Thesis (LL.M. (Import and Export Law))--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2003

Diploma thesis mainly deals with the phenomenon of the Internet in mening of its communication paradigm. It tries to describe and explain the function of Internet communication, to differentiate and describe the basic principles of communication on the Internet, defining the concept of virtuality and finally find a relationship between interpersonal and mediated communication. The larger section will be devoted to pedagogical communication and conclusion of the work will draw the consequences of online communication on communication in education.

Em tempos correntes, importantes processos de comunicação (escrita ou verbal) e armazenamento de informações aperfeiçoam-se por intermédio dos meios eletrônicos. À medida que o acesso à rede mundial de computadores (internet) se intensifica em progressões geométricas, multiplicam-se também os dados intercambiados por internautas e emergem técnicas cada vez mais avançadas de coleta e processamento de informações. Atividades rotineiras como a navegação e o envio de mensagens eletrônicas realizam-se apenas à custa de imenso trânsito de informações; como pegadas deixadas pelo caminho, os dados comutados nestas atuações permitem reconstituir os caminhos e atividades empreendidos na rede. A salvaguarda destas informações afigura-se imprescindível à vida privada e demanda rígida disciplina normativa. Não se trata apenas de impedir que dados de tráfego ou de conteúdo sejam empregados contrariamente ao Direito, mas de assegurar também que, em situações excepcionais descritas pelo legislador, sirvam para corroborar investigações criminais. Pretende-se neste trabalho um exame sistemático dos principais meios de busca da prova digital, com o escopo de delimitar o regime jurídico das intervenções nas comunicações eletrônicas e das medidas de apreensão de dados automatizados. Neste mister, inafastável analisar a disciplina constitucional do sigilo da comunicação de dados (CF, art. 5o, inciso XII) e investigar o fundamento legal das autorizações judiciais para a obtenção de informações eletrônicas. Sob perspectiva eminentemente interdisciplinar, cumpre discorrer sobre noções de Cibernética, telecomunicações, Informática, liberdade como autonomia recíproca de acesso à informação e comunicações eletrônicas, imprescindíveis à compreensão deste novo espaço do agir humano: o entorno digital. No campo da hermenêutica constitucional, necessário perquirir relevantes aspectos da vida privada e da proteção da intimidade antecedentes históricos, direito à privacy, hodierna projeção como autodeterminação informativa, teoria das três esferas e inviolabilidade das comunicações que permitirão opinar sobre a constitucionalidade das interceptações de dados em processos informacionais. Em sequência, devem ser conceituados os dados digitais e suas respectivas categorias, as técnicas de investigação penal e o resguardo de fontes de provas digitais. Sem deixar de contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento da normativa legal vigente, de rigor o exame de duas ordens distintas de incorporação dos dados ao processo: a intervenção no fluxo comunicativo destinada a captar dados e a apreensão física do dispositivo informático que alberga as informações. Como meios de busca de prova, esses procedimentos devem ser estudados de maneira individualizada, a partir de aspectos como conceito, regulação, natureza jurídica, finalidade, condicionantes legais (pressupostos, requisitos e limites), direito de defesa, juízo de proporcionalidade e controle. Por fim, tecidas as necessárias considerações sobre a conservação, eficácia probatória e valoração dos conteúdos automatizados, impõe-se indagar acerca dos efeitos decorrentes de operações ilícitas perpetradas sobre dados digitais. / In these days, important communication process (written or verbal) and information storage improve through electronic means. While the access to the computer worldwide web (internet) grows in geometrical progression, it also increases the number of webusers data and more and more advanced technics of gathering and processing information emerge. Routine activities such as sailing or sending electronic messages only happen due to the vast transit of information; like footprints left on the way, the data commutated in these actions allow to re-establish the ways and activities undertaken in the web. The security of these information figures indispensable to private life and demands a severe normative discipline. It is not only a matter of preventing that traffic or contents data may be used against the law. But also to assure that, in exceptional situation described by the legislator, it can be useful to confirm criminal investigation. This work intends a systematic examination of the main ways of searching digital evidence, with the purpose of delimitate the judiciary system of the intervention in electronic and apprehension extent of automation data. So, it must be analysed the constitutional discipline of communication data secrecy (CF, art. 5º, inciso XII) and even to investigate the legal foundation of judicial authorization to obtain electronic information. Under a strictly multidiscipline perspective, one must consider some notions of Cybernetics, telecommunication, Informatics, freedom as reciprocal autonomy access to electronic information and communication, which are essential to understand this new area of human act; the digital place. In the field of constitutional interpretation of law, it is necessary to scrutinize considerable aspects of private life and intimacy protection historical antecedents, privacy right, actual projection such as informative selfdetermination, three sphere theory and inviolability of communication so that they will permit to express an opinion about the constitutionality of interception data in informative proceedings. Sequentially, conceptualize the digital data and their respective categories, penal investigation technics and the protection of digital evidence sources. There may be a cooperation to a better improvement of the effective legal normative, an accurate examination of two different disposition of data incorporation to the process, the intervention in the communicative flow just to receive data and physical apprehension of the informatic device which contains information. As a quest in resources of proof, these proceedings must be examined in a individual way, starting with the aspects such as concept, regulation, juridical nature, finality, legal conditioning (presupposed, requisite and limits), right of defence, judgement of proportionality and control. At last, taken into everything about the conservation, evidential efficiency and the value of automatize contents still we have to enquire about the results of illicit operations perpetrated on digital data.