“电子数据”概念之重述

Restatement of “E-data”

新刑事诉讼法增加了"电子数据"这一全新形态的证据种类,但是在理论研究和司法实践中,电子数据与相近似概念仍处于混用的状态。对电子数据概念的界定,应当准确界定"电子"与"数据"的内涵,并将之与其他理论概念相区别。"电子数据"的完整概念可以表达为:借助现代信息技术、利用电子设备生成、存储、传输而成的,以电子形态存在的证明案件事实的数据(包括模拟数据与数字数据)。电子数据与电子证据没有区分的必要,电子数据包含计算机数据与数字数据,构成种属关系。电子数据与科学证据是交叉关系,只有科学分析型的电子数据才是科学证据,因此电子数据并非一律要进行司法鉴定。

“E-data”was added into the statutory evidence by the Amendment of Criminal Procedure Law and finally won legitimacy of its own legal status,but it is still mixed with the similar concepts during the theoretical research and judicial practice.E-data is the data relevant to the case generated,stored or transferred by electronic equipment based on modern information technology,including analog data and digital data.There is no necessity in theory or in practice to make a distinction between e-data and e-evidence;Computer-evidence or digital evidence should be included in e-data,no cross relationship exist among them.E-data and scientific evidence have cross relationship,and only the analytical e-data be-longs to the scientific evidence,thus e-data is not always to be identificated.