Hacking team in Chile: does the software comply with the minimum quality standards established by the Chilean legal system?
| Autor | Valentina Hernández |
| Páginas | 184-185 |
DIGITAL RIGHTS: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
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Hacking team in Chile: does the
software comply with the minimum
quality standards established by the
Chilean legal system?
Valentina Hernández76
modern spy software by the Italian company, explaining that it is a tool
to face highly organized criminal activity. Is it proportional to the use of a
computer program of this nature?
Towards the end of 2011, all the inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires and
its suburbs wanted their SUBE, as the public transport card for our city is
known. The new technology promised to solve a problem and avoid one
in the future. On one hand, we would. On July 6th, Chile’s Investigative
of hackers broke into the system of the Italian company and leaked
400 GB of information, among those several emails talking about the
increase their operational abilities in the investigation of organized crime,
Phantom is a variation of the Remote Control System, the Hacking team’s
key product, and it is what is known as a trojan: a malicious software
presented to the user as a genuine and harmless software but when
executed gives the attacker remote access to the infected device for both
computers or smartphones.
This software is capable of collecting emails, turn on the camera or the
already deleted, among many others functions. The big intrusive ability of
legal standards established by the Chilean legal system?
The Criminal Procedure Code, just like certain special laws (the
Antiterrorism Law, the Drug Law or the National Intelligence Agency Law)
contemplates and allows, in the investigation of certain crimes, the exercise
of investigative management that infringes the fundamental rights and
76 Valentina Hernández holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law at University of Chile. She is
a NGO Derechos Digitales’ researcher.
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