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The first step that forensic examiners perform is identifying and acquiring data. Both are among the most critical segments in the forensic process since they are sine qua non for completing the examination and analysis phases. The evidence acquisition ...

Explicit legal regulation is still lacking in many countries for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and others. This is not unusual for a new technology. On top of such cryptocurrencies, another new technology, so-called smart contracts, ...

A global tendency to use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in many areas of our life including critical or vital infrastructure evokes debates about its use for public administration purposes. AI-based systems help to control complex systems in ...

Regulatory and technological aspects of cloud technology are showing both opportunities and gaps in the rules on security and accessibility. Our proposal aims at addressing a problem that has not yet manifested using a protocol and discussing the ...

The widespread adoption of Learning Analytics (LA) and Educational Data Mining (EDM) has somewhat stagnated recently, and in some prominent cases even been reversed following concerns by governments, stakeholders and civil rights groups about privacy ...

Research collaboration between industry and academia remains challenging despite progress being made on a number of fronts. We are not implying that all information systems researchers should be engaging in industry collaborations, nor should the value ...

Internet search market of key words attracts much attention in conjunction with the legal proceedings against Google. It has been recognized that legal argumentation alone may not be sufficient to disentangle the complexity of the case. An approach that ...

Online users use more and more social login on third-party sites or applications. To use an existing account to login is faster than to fill in personal information forms over and over again. However, many online users, even those who frequently use ...

In the last eight years, there has been little progress made on updating our nation's outdated and ineffective privacy laws. While the cost of data has plummeted and entire new industries have been created around storing, analyzing, and sorting large ...

The ability to collect and organize large data sets has proven to be transformational: instead of just a linear improvement of older techniques, the ability to effectively process huge amounts of information creates radically new abilities and ...

Human life today has become entangled in the Internet. We access e-mail, store content, and use services online without a thought as to where data reside or how data are protected. The "cloud," a conceptualization of how data reside on the Internet ...

Digital images are everywhere—from our cell phones to the pages of our online news sites. How we choose to use digital image processing raises a surprising host of legal and ethical questions that we must address. What are the ramifications of hiding ...

Traditional forensic disciplines get increasingly digitized. This allows for new investigations and often provides more details for each trace. Due to this digitalization, digital and digitized forensic disciplines have very similar courses of action ...

This paper analyses the reform processes linked to the automation of the admission to higher education in Norway. The long development process has included many steps of technical developments, combined with changes in legislation and radical ...

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991 in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Service Co. affirmed originality as a constitutional requirement for copyright. Originality has a specific sense and is constituted by a minimal degree of ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the national strategy of Argentina in fighting against cybercrime, from a legal point of view. Argentina has 24 provinces with individual procedural crime code, in addition to another at the national government ...

This case study describes the current state of the process for defining the juridical framework to support the electronic government strategy of the City of Bogotá, Capital of Colombia. This process began in 2007, through District Decree 619 of 2007. ...

The observation of the ethical and juridical standards is the premise without which the applications of biomedical research involving human beings are forbidden. Taking this into consideration, the ethical aspects of biomedical research, are evaluated ...

Electronic health records are increasingly used to enhance availability, recovery, and transfer of health records. Newly developed online health systems such as Google-Health create new security and privacy risks. In this paper, we elucidate a clear ...