Analysis of cyber crimes from the perspective of proportionality: incongruences of the law 12.737/2012

With the approval of law 12.737 / 2012, the crime of invasion of computer devices in Brazil was typified. The approval of the law by the National Congress and occurred after the repercussion given to the subject after intimate photos of the famous actress Carolina Dieckmann, have been released on the internet without his permission. It is a criminal type with many elements open, which need to be limited and clarified for a correct application to concrete cases. The purpose of this study was to analyze the crime brought by article 154-A, and added to the Criminal Code by Law No. 12,737, of November 30, 2012, known as the "Carolina Dieckmann Law", through which it was possible to verify existing ambiguities in the caput of that article, as well as the penalty imposed which does not comply with the principle of proportionality and renders the law ineffective.