Protection of Electronic Financial Information by Criminal Law

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K01194
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 05050:Criminal law-related
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Nagai Yoshiyuki 金沢大学, 法学系, 教授 (50388609)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 暗号資産 / 電子マネー / キャッシュレス / 財産犯 / 刑法 / 経済刑法 / デジタルプラットフォームビジネス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With regard to the criminal legal protection of electronic proprietary data, this study clarified that, to some extent, it is possible to deal with fraudulent acts involving this data through interpretive responses to existing laws and the recent development of special laws, but that further measures may be required to regulate such acts, depending on the relationship between the data recording status and the form of the fraudulent act, and that legal discipline of digital platform operators that control distribution of high-value data may be significant in protecting data handled on these platforms.

Free Research Field

社会科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

電子マネーや暗号資産といった財産的経済的価値を有する電子的な情報自体が通貨に匹敵するほどの機能を営むまでに至っている現代社会における、これらの情報に化体された財産的利益への刑法的保護の及びうる範囲の明確化とともに、そのような保護を今後の技術や社会経済の進展下においても維持、実現可能な法的規制構造の構築のための将来的検討の理論的基盤の獲得にも資するものと思われる。