Legal Commentary
Digital Surveillance and the Right to Privacy: Georgian Law in Context
10 December 20259 min readAna Beridze
An analysis of Georgia's legal framework governing state surveillance, assessed against the standards established by the European Court of Human Rights in its Article 8 jurisprudence.
Georgia's Law on Operative-Investigative Activity grants broad powers of electronic surveillance to security services, subject to judicial authorisation. In a series of decisions since 2019, the Constitutional Court has incrementally imposed procedural safeguards on the exercise of these powers, requiring ex ante judicial oversight and notification of surveilled persons after the investigation is closed.