論網路通訊監察之水平式分階段規制──以「食肉獸系統」為主要檢討素材

The Study on the Horizontal Phased Regulation of Internet Surveillance—Taking the“Carnivore System”as the Main Material for Review

本文指出，現行通訊保障及監察法（通保法）於立法之初係以中央系統通訊傳輸作為制度設計之前提，導致其在本質上難以對應分散系統通訊傳輸之規制需求。而網路傳輸即分散系統之典型例，故本文以有網路封包補食器之稱的食肉獸系統（進行通訊監察之一種科技手段）作為主要檢討素材，藉以釐清問題之所在。再以此為前提，聚焦於數位匯流之技術性特徵，改從跨巨庫觀點為進一步的綜合分析。所謂跨巨庫，係指以數位匯流技術為代表的各類情報通訊科學技術，搭配上各式各樣的感知器或探測器乃至於各種端末，而得讓各類不同的資料庫具有可跨虛擬與實境之無限連結可能性，藉此生成一個可不斷有機成長的跨領域之巨大資料庫。政府利用此一既存的跨巨庫現象來進行偵查時，可區分為四階段，即 A 設備裝置階段、B 取得資訊階段、C 儲存累積階段、D 照合分析階段，此即所謂跨巨庫觀點。本文擬由此觀點進一步深入剖析，並提出所謂水平式分階段規制論（即區分上述 A、B、C、D 各階段分別進行不同的規制），最後以之為據，針對現行通保法提出具體之修法建言。

This article points out that the current Communication Security and Surveil-lance Act (CSSA) was originally based on a centralized system as its prerequisite for legislation, so it is essentially unable to cope with the problems of decentralized systems. Because the Internet is a typical example of a decentralized system, this paper takes the Carnivore System (a technological method for internet surveillance) known as a packet sniffer as the main material to clarify the problem. With this as the premise, this article focuses on the technical characteristics of digital conver-gence, and change it from the perspective of “the across-giant-database” to further comprehensive analysis. With the development and popularization of information technology and various sensors, everyday life in the modern world is often insepa-rable from a variety of giant databases that have unlimited possibility of connecting the virtual and the real world. This is the aforementioned “the across-giant-database”. “The across-giant-database” as an investigative method can be divided into four stages: A stage-equipment installation, B stage-getting information, C stage-storage accumulation, and D stage-conformity analysis. This is the so-called cross-big library view. This article further analyzes this point of view and puts for-ward the so-called horizontal phased regulation theory to make specific suggestions for amending the current law.