On the Issue of the Concept of “Digital Information” in relation to Criminal Proceedings

Abstract

The intensive and massive introduction of digital technologies has revealed the “lag” of law from dynamically developing public relations. To date, a unified position on the concept of information obtained using digital technologies has not been developed and legislatively fixed. The article con[1]siders the problem of the lack of a uniform understanding of the concept of information obtained using digital technologies in criminal proceedings. The author cites various positions of scientists on the issue under study, as well as the provisions of normative legal acts containing legal definitions of the analyzed term. An author’s version of the term is proposed to denote information introduced into criminal procedural evidence through digital media. The lack of a legal definition of digital information and a common understanding of its essence when used in proving a criminal case makes it much more difficult to achieve the goals of criminal proceedings. The legislative definition of the concept of “digital information” will contribute to the correct, or rather, the only possible understanding of its meaning in the context of this legal context.