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Surveillance, criminal law and sovereighty

journal contribution
posted on 2015-07-03, 00:00 authored by Ian WarrenIan Warren
Seeking better understanding of the relationship between criminal law and surveillance demands investigating the evolving nature of sovereignty in an era of transnational digital information flows. While territorial boundaries determine the limits of police investigative and surveillance powers under the criminal law, several recent United States (US) examples demonstrate how new forms of extraterritorial surveillance that enable police to access online communications by foreign citizens and digital information stored in offshore locations are authorized by US courts. This discussion outlines how the processes of mutual legal assistance that ordinarily govern the search, seizure and transfer of digital evidence from one jurisdiction to another are increasingly considered to undermine police efficiency, even though they protect the due process rights afforded to crime suspects under established principles of sovereignty (Palmer and Warren 2013).

History

Journal

Surveillance and society

Volume

13

Pagination

1-6

Location

Kingston, Ont.

Start date

2015-07-03

End date

2015-07-03

Material type

journal

Resource type

other

ISSN

1477-7487

Edition

Vol 13

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, Queens University

Extent

Invited critical comment with original legal research

Issue

2

Publisher

Queens University

Place of publication

Kingston, Ontario, CA