MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
In matters of generating capacities, SUTEL collaborates with the Judicial School giving lectures
and training for the judges in matters of security, within the framework of the training program in
telecommunications implemented by said School.
Within the regulatory framework, Costa Rica has updated its national regulations creating legal
development for the protection of Costa Rican cyber-society, enabling the possibility for people
to report breaches suffered in the virtual world which had no legal answer before. Among these,
stands out the Law for Protection of Persons for the Processing of Personal Data and its
Regulation, thus the creation of the Agency for Inhabitants’ Data Protection (PRODHAB),
governing body in this matter.
There is also the Law for Informatics Crimes, Act Nº 9048 and the Reform of various articles
and amendment of section VIII, denominated Informatics Crimes and Related from title VII of the
Criminal Code instituting a more complete legal framework and in agreement with the new
crimes committed with technological means.
Searching to improve the Costa Rican regulatory framework and achieve a better operation
before computer crime, Costa Rica consolidated the accession process to the “Convention o
Cybercrime” known as the “Budapest Convention” by signing Executive Decree N° 40546RREE on July 3 of 2017 which supports the fight against informatics crimes.15
With the purpose of having a unit in charge of collecting evidence for addressing crimes
associated to technology, the Section of Informatics Crimes was created in 1997, as Unit of
Informatics Investigation, attached to the Department of Criminal Investigations; it was born out
of the need of processing information stored in computers and servers from important cases; it
was constituted in 2002 as Section of Informatics Crimes.
This section carries out research of informatics crimes and others related to technologies
w h ere i t ’ s utilized to commit a criminal act or as evidence. Forensic computer techniques are
used to that end, aligned with international standards in the collection, preservation and the
15
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (2017). Executive Decree N°40546-RREE. Available at
http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?param1=NRTC&nValor1=1&n
Valor2=84643&nValor3=109293¶m2=1&strTipM=TC&lResultado=1&strSim=simp
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