전기통신사업자 보관 몰수 대상 정보의 압수실태 및 개선방안 (A Study on Current Status of Seizing Electronic Information Subject to Confiscation Stored by Telecommunications Business Operator and Its Improvements)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 경찰대학 경찰대학
· 수록지 정보 : 경찰학연구 / 16권 / 3호 / 9 ~ 16페이지
· 저자명 : 김기범, 이관희

초록

형사소송법에 정보에 대한 출력·복제 압수원칙이 명문화되면서 전기통신사업자가 보관하고 있는 아동음란물, 개인정보 등 몰수해야 할 정보의 처리가 곤란해졌다. 출력·복제 방식으로 압수하면 전기통신사업자가 해당 정보를 계속 보관하게 되어 유포될 우려가 있고, 그렇다고 정보저장매체를 압수하면 서비스가 중단되고 혐의와 관련 없는 정보까지 압수되는 문제가 발생하기 때문이다. 이러한 딜레마를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 전기통신사업자가 보관하고 있는 몰수 대상 정보에 관한 압수 법제와 수사현장의 집행실태를 분석하여 문제점을 도출한 다음 이에 대한 제도적·입법적 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다.

영어초록

As the Criminal Procedure Act incorporates a principle of ‘print-out and copy’, telecommunications business operator may still retain cyber contraband such as chid pornography and corporate secret even after search and seizure. This is because, by the Act, neither can law enforcement agencies delete, nor seize the contents subject to confiscation.
This paper explores legal and institutional improvements to tackle such dilemma in relation to seizure of electronic information subject to confiscation.
From institutional framework, ‘Preservation Request for Seized Goods’ is discussed with a view to prevent telecommunications business operator from accessing information of confiscation. ‘Confiscation Prior to Prosecution’ is also proposed with regard to virtual currency.
In addition, this paper tries to interpretate an act of distribution of illegal contents as ‘danger’ so as to discard information of confiscation at the phase of police investigation, provided that the condition meets relevant articles of Criminal Procedure Act.
Such interpretation, however, requires strict discretion, more so than is to the tangible objects and articles, on account of ‘freedom of speech’ and disputes in legal interpretation.
From the legislative viewpoint, the article proposes amendment of Article 106 paragraph 3 of the Act in a way that it newly includes a measure of ‘removal after copy’. It also argues that compulsory measures–remove order and mandatory compliance of telecommunications business operator - shall be followed to ensure proper implementation of the Act.
It is to be hoped that those measures can enhance a system of seizure on electronic information subject to confiscation, and minimize the gap between the law in books and realities in investigative field

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