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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can an employee bring a claim against an employer if the employer bases an employment-related decision on information obtained from a personal data storage device? On June 26, the Florida Third ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

The Marion raid appears to be the first time public officials have searched a newspaper under the claim of enforcing a computer crime law. The state computer crime statute applies when someone breaks ...