The crime of unlawfully intercepting data and information

Author: 
Souraya Bourbaba, Lakhdar Maachou and Abd Elkafi Meriam

The unlawful objection to the data is considered a serious attack on the freedom of communication and on personal freedoms and their sanctity, freedoms guaranteed by international and national legislation, but the interception of communications on the other hand secures to the judicial and security authorities and is a very important means in the investigation work, and in controlling evidence Or the preparatory work that precedes the criminal act, and to ward off the danger of conspiracies that are prepared against the state and the security of societies, and one of the most important means that helps to uncover crimes and arrest their perpetrators and those involved in them, which requires reconciliation between two conflicting interests, namely: the interest of the individual, his rights and private freedoms, and the interest of State, society and national security.

Paper No: 
3546