A technical device may be set up for the purpose, without the consent of the persons concerned, of accessing, recording, retaining and transmitting computer data in any place, as stored in a computer system, as displayed on a screen for the user of an automated data processing system, as entered by the user by typing characters or as received and transmitted by peripheral devices.
The public prosecutor or investigating judge may designate any authorised natural or legal person registered on one of the lists provided for in Article 157, with a view to carrying out the technical operations enabling the technical device mentioned in the first paragraph of this article to be implemented. The public prosecutor or investigating judge may also order the use of State resources subject to national defence secrecy in the manner provided for in Chapter I of Title IV of Book I.
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