The article analyses the criminal legislation of the Republic of Moldova in relation to
international standards for the protection of migrants’ rights. The article is an attempt to
strike a balance between migrants’ access to privacy and the public interest in combating
smuggling of migrants in the digital age. The search for consensus arises in response to
the question of the extent to which the judicial act will have a higher level of legitimacy
when the state has the broad margin of appreciation to assess the interference in the
migrant’s private life in the internet.
