RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN EVIDENCE LAW IN THE INFORMATION AGE: CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW ASPECT
- Authors: Okonenko R.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow City Court
- Issue: Vol 1, No 3 (2015)
- Pages: 144-150
- Section: Criminal procedure
- URL: https://journals.ssau.ru/jjsu/article/view/4943
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18287/2542-047X-2015-1-3-144-150
- ID: 4943
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In the article modern tendencies in Russian and American evidence law that are determined by appearance of informational technologies are viewed. Special attention is paid to the digital evidence conception as promising direction for legal research. Peculiar characteristics of digital devices (such as great volume of memory, data copying simplicity, unobviousness and content relativity, remote access to information) are defined by the author for making new models of personal criminal procedural activity, that enhance level of legal protection against public agencies unreasonable intrusion into private life. Also author briefly describes state of Russian legal science in order to define its incompliance
with social realia, speed of technological progress and conclude that additional research in sphere of privacy is required for making law-enforcement activity more effective.
About the authors
R. I. Okonenko
Moscow City Court
Author for correspondence.
Email: morenov.sv@ssau.ru
assistant judge
Russian FederationReferences
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