The capture of images in public places without judicial authorization. The reasonable expectation of being shielded from the observation of others as a key criterion

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https://doi.org/10.12795/IESTSCIENTIA.2023.i02.02

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Criminal Investigations, New technologies, Technical devices for image capture, Fundamental right to privacy, Garage

Abstract

In order to provide the necessary legal coverage for certain technological investigation measures that are absolutely essential to deal with a new criminal phenomenology and, in short, to guarantee the requirements for legal security in the field of fundamental rights, Organic Law 13/2015, amending the Criminal Procedural Act, defines the modalities of technological investigation and sets out the constitutional and legal requirements that legitimize their adoption.

One such measures is the capture of images of the person under investigation in public places or spaces, which presents as unique in relation to all others the possibility of being ordered by the Judicial Police without the need for judicial authorization.

The present study focuses on determining what is to be understood by public space or place as a legitimizing factor of the measure, for which the recent STC 92/2033, of September 11, is analyzed, which determines that the garage of a community of owners does not have such consideration, as it is a space that belongs to the area of the privacy protected by article 18.1of the Spanish Constitution.

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2023-12-30

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Díaz Martínez, M. (2023). The capture of images in public places without judicial authorization. The reasonable expectation of being shielded from the observation of others as a key criterion. IUS ET SCIENTIA, 9(2), 27–41. https://doi.org/10.12795/IESTSCIENTIA.2023.i02.02

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): El derecho a la intimidad en la sociedad de la vigilancia

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