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COIP, interceptación ilegal de datos

Código Orgánico Integral Penal (COIP), art. 230 (interceptación ilegal de datos)

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In force since 10 February 2014.

A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 5 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not intercept, listen to, divert, record, or observe a computer datum, signal, or data transmission without a prior judicial order and for the purpose of obtaining registered or available information.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Private right of actionNo

Criminal exposure note

Three to five years' imprisonment (art. 230(1)).

What this law does

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Article 230(1) punishes, with three to five years' imprisonment, a person who, without prior judicial order and for their own benefit or a third party's, intercepts, listens to, diverts, records, or observes, in any form, a computer datum at its origin, destination, or inside a computer system, or a signal or data transmission, with the aim of obtaining registered or available information.

Reading a public, unauthenticated page does not fit a plain reading of an offence built around a judicial-order requirement and an interception of a transmission.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

Official COIP text (Registro Oficial Suplemento 180, 10 de febrero de 2014)
reproduced by SHERLOC, the UNODC's Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime database

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