Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for legitimate purposes. The U.K. and Germany are ...

Every year, I complete a new supplement to my Computer Crime Law casebook that includes the latest cases as well as the latest statutes. I recently handed in the materials for the 2017 Supplement, and ...

Employee rights to privacy are balanced against employers' rights to monitor business operations. Technological advances present complex new privacy issues and the legal system is still trying to ...

This month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of its publisher to seize computers, cellphones and documents.

Legal and IT experts have made submissions to the government’s call for views on the current rules around the use of computer evidence in court, which closes today. The wider public understanding of ...

"Congress tries to write technology-neutral laws," says Jennifer Granick, an Internet law expert at Stanford, "but there's been a wholesale change in how we interact with computers"€ that renders ...

Transformational technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning profoundly impact the legal landscape, both in terms of how computation is changing legal systems and law practice and ...

The UK government's plan to finally rewrite the 1990 Computer Misuse Act to provide much-needed legal protections for ethical hackers is welcome, but now we need firm action.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court limited the scope of the federal law against computer hacking on Thursday, ruling it covers those who break into confidential files, but not people who misuse the ...

Gordon Moore has one law but we’ve got him beat. Here at the (unofficial) Tech Law Brain Trust, we maintain a definitive, ever-expanding archive of the laws that govern your technology ...