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 ...

In the closing days of August, two federal appeals courts issued noteworthy decisions at the intersection of workplace ...

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 ...

Nine state-level data protection laws have come into force in the US this year, and three more are slated for January 2026.

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday over whether a police officer broke a federal computer crime law when he accessed a government database to check a license plate for someone who bribed him ...

The sometimes fractured court came together Friday to draw a clear line between patent-eligible tech inventions and abstract ideas. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has taken some ...

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 ...

For some people, all math problems are difficult. But for computer scientists, most math problems are easy. The computer does all the work. Sometimes, though, problems come along that even computers ...