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 ...

LONDON (AP) — A computer law expert on Friday described the evidence behind the U.S. arrest of a notorious British cyber security researcher as being problematic — an indictment so flimsy that it ...

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 ...

In a highly anticipated test of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit construed the law narrowly Tuesday, saying prosecutors can't use it to go after ...

The Internet is a “god-awful mess,” but few U.S. government officials are willing to take action against virus writers, spammers and other scammers, author Bruce Sterling said at the Gartner IT ...

WHEN RAY ANDRUS' 91-year-old father gave federal agents permission to search his son's password-protected computer files and they found child pornography, the case turned a spotlight on how appellate ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Computer trespassing is already a crime in Virginia, but state lawmakers are trying to broaden the law because of how difficult it can be for law enforcement to charge violators.