Geolocalization through IP addresses

Abstract

The new technology and the advancement of communications have changed the way of committing, and associated with, investigating the offenders. There are multiple variants that the technique puts at our disposal to ind out the exact location of a person, and not all of them, are covered by the standard or have a detailed regulation in this regard. We are facing a complex and scarce normative framework that, in very few times, makes speciic reference to the geolocation; the obtaining of data through the IP address isn’t the exception of that rule. We should ask ourselves, how the Security Forces must access this information with full respect for the citizens fundamental rights, avoiding any kind of violations, in order to get it as a source of proof in the penal process.