Supreme Court ruling on IP address as "electronic evidence"

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In the judicial processes of crimes committed by telematic means, the computer expert evidence assumes a great protagonism.

The existence of many convictions highlights the need for the assessment to be carried out by judges with knowledge of new technologies, who have the specific characteristics of the sources and means of computer evidence, who are aware of the degree of real reliability of the electronic test, in such a way that the critical assessment of the test to be performed by the judge is not replaced, in the case of expert evidence, by the private assessment of the expert.

The Supreme Court corrects one of these judgments and establishes that the IP address, by itself, proves nothing more than the ownership of the line and its consideration in isolation is insufficient to prove authorship.

Read the text of the sentence: STS 987/2012, of December 3.

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