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the course of investigating the crime, the Supreme Court ruled that even if you received a search and seizure warrant for your personal cell phone, you should not seize the cloud account file linked to it.



Reporter Han So-hee reports the details.



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Supreme Court recently overturned the conviction of Mr. A, who was charged with illegal filming, etc.



The way the police secured the video was a problem.



The police received a warrant for seizure of Mr. A's cell phone, and using the fact that the obtained cell phone was logged into a Google account, they also secured a file stored on the Google cloud server.



The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that this method was illegal because it was outside the scope of the warrant.



[Lee Hyeon-bok / Supreme Court Justice Researcher: Even after only receiving a warrant for the search and seizure of cell phones and computers, it can be expected that it will affect the investigation practice that has been conducting the search and seizure of data stored on the connected server.]



The problem is securing evidence of crime that has become more difficult.



It is practically impossible to search and confiscate a server in a foreign country, so two methods are mainly used.



First, the investigative agency voluntarily takes over the ID and password from the person involved.



However, it is rare for the person under investigation to hand over access rights.



So, I used the method of getting a signed-in mobile phone and entering the cloud, but it is no longer possible.



The second is to obtain a search and seizure warrant and cooperate with the country where the server is located.



However, due to stringent conditions, the Korean government requested Google to disclose information through legal assistance in only 7 cases from 2009 to 12 years ago.



It is pointed out that if there is a management entity such as a Korean branch, it is necessary to strengthen international legal cooperation on cloud services and to come up with a law that imposes the obligation to submit data to domestic entities in case of serious crimes.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)